Two weeks back, MAME 0.239 was launched, including some long awaited CD-i compatibility update. CD-i member TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz) is busy preparing new updates for the upcoming MAME 0.24, which promises to have again better CD-i support on-board. In the past recent days he dug into proper audio support and better understanding of the difficult CD-i Ready format. Ryan: "After a small handful of fixes to the video chip (MCD-212 'VDSC') emulation in MAME's Philips CD-i driver, The Apprentice no longer has flashing corruption at the bottom of the screen. As it turns out, "CD-i Ready" games are almost identical to a standard CDDA disc other than the fact that the initial set of sectors can be decoded as data, and the lead-in is (by definition) larger than 30 seconds."
The recent MAME version also better support the Quizard CD-i titles, which Ryan is still working on improvements for the upcoming MAME versions. "In light of the recent improvements to the Philips CD-i console driver in MAME, I figured I'd record a run-through of each of the four major revisions of the pub-quiz series from TAB Austria, "Quizard"." To be continued!
[Thanks, TheMogMiner (Ryan Holtz), CD-i Fan]