One of the key players by mathias was his CD-i player 605T, now owned by Jorne who made some new pictures of it, very much appreciated. It brings up the story of the floppy drive back again, as certain professional CD-i players have a floppy disc drive next to the optical disc drive. CD-i member 'cdifan' talked about this here before: "I think the floppy drives where used mostly for verification tests and quick program tests. You could also use them for getting screenshots etc. off the CD-i (provided your program could generate them, of course). I remember often using the floppy for preloading a RAM disk (on the 605 you can make these so they survive a reset) with basic OS9 system utilities like dir, copy, list...""we used them for tests. But basically, those were OS9 system floppies, it looked and felt a bit like MSDOS. So you could do i.e. file operations on a command line, just like DOS", according to the author of CD-i Emulator. He adds that CD-i Emulator 0.6x is in the process of adding floppy support, but it's not there yet. That's an interesting update if you want to experience, at a later stage, professional CD-i titles which are now added to Archive.org thanks to the preservation CD-i project and our huge CDi collection at the Home Computer Museum. Hopefully this all will make sharing CD-i stuff easier and it results in preserving CD-i via the CD-i Emulator as closely to the original as it is possible.
[Thanks, CD-i fan, Jorne]
