The CD-i Base library was going to be released under the LGPL and sources would be available from the very beginning."
Nice, promising, lovely, and with Frog Feast on CD-i a perfect continuation for eventual homebrew on CD-i. Thanks to Frog Feast we have also seen Super Quartet on CD-i at the beginning of 2019.
Unfortunately we've never seen anything of CD-i Base, probably a very ambitious task, moreover as cdifan is also busy with the CD-i Emulator 0.53. The signs are here that something is happening though.
About CD-i Base, thanks to the people behind 'The World of CD-i' it is made sure that CD-i Base is still alive and actually reframed a bit going srong with a new name: CD-iZi.
"The objective is to make using it as simple as possible for any interested developer, even without programming experience. With a philosophy somewhat like CD-i Fan’s never released “CD-i Base” project, we want to make it work like pre-programmed blocks ready to be joined into a program. After release, the software will be free for everyone who participated in the project, and later on after a full functional verification, it will be free for everyone."
Omegalfa assures us it's actually more than what CD-i Base ever was:"This is not CD-i Base, this is a complete authoring tool software. CD-i will control the evolution of CD-izi. As you know, CD-i Base was meant to be assets, not an authoring tool." A nice evolution of such an ambitious task, that would indeed make it even more easier. When it happens, it can be a little marvel on CD-i, on paper it's very interesting!
Omegalfa assures us it's actually more than what CD-i Base ever was:"This is not CD-i Base, this is a complete authoring tool software. CD-i will control the evolution of CD-izi. As you know, CD-i Base was meant to be assets, not an authoring tool." A nice evolution of such an ambitious task, that would indeed make it even more easier. When it happens, it can be a little marvel on CD-i, on paper it's very interesting!
It's a bit worrying that all activities are fragmenting on so many places, but we're happy to see the activity! Thumbs up to cdifan for his continued support to CD-i! I hope the next step is to get renewed attention to the CD-i File Player that was hinted about 10 years ago :)