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Secret videos of dev team Creative Media found on Whack a Bubble disc...
CD-i member Mr Burns has an awesome Youtube channel full of CD-i videos, no other website can beat his collection of CD-i video material. He is playing and recording the whole archive that is currently...
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Building on the MAME CD-i work last month, the CD-i has received a few more...
Hinted here, the new version of MAME was planned to have new CD-i updates and improved compatibility in version 0.240. That version was released today. You can download it here. Ryan Holtz comments on...
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Philips subsidized Bits Corporation to develop New Day on CD-i, which...
Thanks to CD-i member Mr Burns we can show more material of the unreleased CD-i game 'New Day', again unique CD-i material that was nowhere else available. In this trailer unseen footage is shown of...
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CD-i Classic Advertisement #28 - The CD-i thumbstick is going to be a...
The local Philips Media offices all prepared their own promotional material. The poster above (now with a third sheet) was a local Italian CD-i advertisement. In 2020 we showed you high-res versions of...
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The developer behind homebrew CD-i game 'Nobelia' wants to know from you how...
CD-i member TwBurn developed in the past year a brand new CD-i homebrew game: Nobelia. A game with around 30 levels, offering you a top-down action game a bit like Bomberman. You have to find your way...
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20 years of CD-i blogging - CD-i offered a lot more than I ever experienced...
If there is one thing that I learnt after 20 years of blogging about CD-i, it's that the system offered so much more than what I ever experienced back in the day. It's astonishing the amounts of discs...
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The new homebrew CD-i game 'Nobelia' gets an official trailer and plans for a...
CD-i member TwBurn has created an official trailer for his CD-i homebrew game 'Nobelia' (see below) - including new footage of the extra screens he has created since the demo we all played last year....
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The Mode 7 CD-i demo now also runs in MAME (v0.239 and above) although it...
When Charles Doty developed the first homebrew CD-i game 'Frog Feast' in 2006, he also experimented with other homebrew ideas by porting various ideas on CD-i, including Connaone (search the blog for...
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#cdiday Collection #2 - The June 1995 update of the 'Dictionnaire Hachette...
The original June 1995 update of 'Dictionnaire Hachette Multimedia' featured a fully upgraded Digital Video version of the French encyclopedia. This was also released in a big box CD-ROM style box,...
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International Game Technology (IGT) experimented their KENO coin operated...
IGT (International Game Technology) is a well known brand in the industry of gambling machines, it still exist and is headquarted in Lodon, UK. Their KENO gambling machines offer games like blackjack,...
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#cdiday Collection #3 - DSM test panels to explore the possibilities to...
I saved a few test panels from an old project where we looked into the quality of material and the process to print/stamp the logo's on it. At that point in time we investigated other colors and...
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Mary Emma talks about Laser Lords CD-i and shares what it is that makes this...
CD-i member Mary Emma (CD-i Queen) often shares her love for the CD-i game 'Laser Lords', a game by Dale DeSharone from 1992 released on the Philips CD-i system. This game, together with Alice in...
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CD-i developer 'Gameblabla' (creator of the CD-i homebrew game 'Super...
CD-i developer Gameblabla developed the second CD-i homebrew game 'Super Quartet' in December 2018. He recently returned to CD-i development by updating CD-i tools originally made by Charles Doty, the...
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CD-i developer Gameblabla is redeveloping his CD-i homebrew game 'Super...
Thanks to the efforts of CD-i developer TwBurn on creating the CD-i homebrew game 'Nobelia' (which has been finished recently), the other CD-i developer, Gameblabla, found his ways to redevelop his...
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A Magnavox CD-i 601 player: Did that one really exist?
In one of the folders that is in the enormous CD-i collection of Jorg Kennis, we found a reference to a professional CD-i player that was branded as Magnavox (instead of Philips). It is named CD-i 601...
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Gameblabla returns to CD-i development and attempted a CD-i port of nCraft;...
Interesting return of CD-i developer Gameblabla to the CD-i scene with his work on updating CD-i tools originally made by Charles Doty, redoing his Super Quartet game on CD-i built on the new source...
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Rare CD-i Records #110 - CD-Visuals (SAMPLE) / Explainer Visuals b.v.
CD-i member Laucessy found an unknown CD-i, named 'CD-Visuals', a professional CD-i described as an 'Explainer product', made by Explainer Visuals BV. It is called a sample, otherwise not much is known...
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Next to the numerous CD-i demo discs by Phiips Media, as a CD-ROM publisher...
Interesting find by CD-i member Laucessy: a Philips demo disc of Stickybear: Spelling. Stickeybear was part of a series that was also released on CD-i. Subtitled 'Math, Reading, Preschool and Family...
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If you are interested in CD-i developing/authoring, you might be interested...
If you are interested in CD-i developing and you are eager to learn more about CD-i authoring, you might be interested in these floppy disks which were used to access specific tools of the OS-9 system,...
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I always loved when video games would mess with the menus or logos of the...
CD-i developer The lost Boys was a rare CD-i developer who acted a bit like the 'SquareSoft' of CD-i: I liked it a lot how they let certain CD-i titles mess with the menu shell of the CD-i, trying to...
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With the new Mame version 0.240, which CD-i games are now compatible to play...
With the recent release of Mame 0.240, more CD-i titles are currently compatible to emulate. So it is interesting to collect a new list of compatible CD-i titles that currently work in Mame. Thanks to...
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Reader Question: "Is the music in the trailer of 'Nobelia' from the CD-i...
Recently CD-i developer TwBurn (who is the creator of CD-i homebrew game 'Nobelia') released a trailer of the game. Next to the demo which he released earlier, we can hear a few audio tracks in it....
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Rare Video CD Records #14 - The Guyver: Dark Hero (The Ultimate Weapon)...
CD-i member Lee Storey shared with us another rare Video CD from his collection: The Guyver: Dark Hero on Video CD, released in 1994 and published by CD Vision. CD Vision was a UK publisher, releasing...
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Paul Clarke shares more details on what Philips tried to get Doom on CD-i
Paul Clarke was one of the developers behind the CD-i first person shooter Atlantis: The Last resort and this game actually was a result of playing around with the possibility to port Doom on CD-i....
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The prototype of 'Si Balla' was the Italian version of the Dutch CD-i...
Do you remember when we shared the prototype of Si Balla on CD-i? At that time, we never heard of this disc but our community found it was released in The Netherlands as 'Dansen!' - a CD-i disc full...
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