With thanks to the efforts of Bart from the Home Computer Museum in Helmond and Wim as a former CD-i developer at Codim in Eindhoven, the CD-i collection in the museum just got a bit bigger thanks to an impressive donation: Including original source data tapes of CD-i titles and concept art of games including Othello and CD Shoot - a proferssional CD-i 615 player and a lot of newspaper articles that included CD-i. Bart: "Wim used to be the managing director of Codim, world's third CD-i production studio based in Eindhoven. We received all his stuff from Codim, back when they were making awesome CD-i-titles. This donation included the very nice Philips CDI 615 professional CD-i-player and development system, a Philips CDI 450 and a Philips CDI 205. However, much more interesting can be found."
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Bart continues: "We received all original source codes on tape. From
games like Tim and Bear but also a tape that says 'Backup Tatjana'. Most
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We received handmade artwork and drawings for CD-i-software and
CD-labels and -books (a very small selection is on the photos). Also the
original photos used to make a flyer for Codim, back then all done by
drawing and cutting paper."
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We received handmade artwork and drawings for CD-i-software and
CD-labels and -books (a very small selection is on the photos). Also the
original photos used to make a flyer for Codim, back then all done by
drawing and cutting paper."
"Also included were several CD-i-magazines and a huge package of cutouts
from newspapers and random magazines that mention CD-i. This is a few
months work to digitize, but we will make sure this won't get lost! Best
of all, Wim will write down his story about CD-i, why he think it
failed from a software perspective and will share that. He was there at
the very early stages. We will obviously add that to our website for
everybody to enjoy and read. Together with Jorg Kennis' amazing
CD-i-collection which is also on display at the museum, we now
definitely have the most complete CD-i-collection in the world with very
unique items!"
