If there is one place that offers valuable technical documentation about the CD-i system, we still have our workhorse at ICDIA.co.uk. The New International CD-IAssociation is also the longest living CD-i website, online since 2000. In that year, the website of Jorg Kennis at www.kennisonline.com and ICDIA joined forces, after Jorg took over responsibility of this website. In 2005 the website changed hosting to our CDinteractive Network, which is still active today. The site showed its value during the development of homebrew CD-i projects: The CD-i format was technically complex and it was not all well documented, the reason why CD-i homebrew is a difficult subject. With our recent uncovering of the physical archive of ICDIA, we also found various technical documentation that was not yet digitalized on the ICDIA website. With the great effort of CD-i Fan, the current webmaster of ICDIA, the first of these documents have now been scanned and uploaded on the ICDIA website. We are confident these documents and the ones that will follow are of great value to any upcoming CD-i homebrew developer!
- CD-I Instruction Manual
This instruction manual describes an early CD-I sample production system, the predecessor of what would later become the CDI 180/181/182 authoring player.
The document contains chapters on the system as a whole, its three comprising units CD-I player, multi media controller and expansion module, as well as the mouse, graphic control and memory card peripherals. Specifications of communication ports, input devices and extensions are included.
Download cdi_insman.pdf (7.86 MB, 102 page PDF)
This is the technical documentation for the 6XX series of CD-I professional players from Philips. This documentation is especially made for CD-I 605 users to be able to support business development. Information about the startup of the system, such as the Configuration Status Descriptor and the SYSGO process, are available here. Specifications of communication ports, input devices and extensions are also added.
Download cdi605_techdoc.pdf (8.43 MB, 94 page PDF)
- Technical Documentation for CDI 605 Users
This is the technical documentation for the 6XX series of CD-I professional players from Philips. This documentation is especially made for CD-I 605 users to be able to support business development. Information about the startup of the system, such as the Configuration Status Descriptor and the SYSGO process, are available here. Specifications of communication ports, input devices and extensions are also added.
Download cdi605_techdoc.pdf (8.43 MB, 94 page PDF)
- Technical Documentation for CDI 605T Users, System Software Release 1.3
This is the technical documentation for the 605T series of CD-i professional players from Philips. This documentation is especially made to be able to support business development.
Information about the startup of the system, such as the Configuration Status Descriptor and the SYSGO process, are available here. Specifications of communication ports, input devices and extensions are also added.
Download cdi605t_techdoc_r13.pdf (9.46 MB, 100 page PDF)
- CDI 615 Technical documentation
This is the technical documentation for the CDI 615, one of the professional CD-i players from Philips. This documentation is especially made to be able to support business development.
Information about the startup of the system, communication ports, input devices and extensions are available here.
Download cdi615_techdoc.pdf (3.38 MB, 24 page PDF)
Find all the related documents here. There will be many more documents be uploaded in the near future, specifically interesting for new homebrew CD-i projects, we will keep you updated!
[Thanks, CD-i Fan, Jorg Kennis]