CD-i Fan about his plans to build a CD-i Emulator that does NOT need a BIOS ROM to work? It is possible, but it won't be available soon. CD-i Fan about this: "Having made a promising start with ROMless emulation (in particular, mostly working C++ versions of the video and pointer device drivers and a good setup to start developing C++ versions of the kernel and remaining drivers and file managers), it appears worthwhile to pursue this path as well. It would make the (apparently) holy grail of CD-i emulation a possibility (no need for copyrighted player ROM contents, just the disc images) and would open up a path to re-releasing CD-i titles on other platforms without ROM rights issues (several title rights-owners have contacted me about this in the last few years). If done right (which I’m trying), it would even allow a rebuild of the CD-RTOS software from the C++ versions by compiling them with an OS-9 C++ compiler (GNU C++ comes to mind). Of course, this would not be the “authentic” CD-i experience but it would allow playing of supported titles (eventually, this should be most of them)."
[Thanks, cdifan]