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Did the cap of your CD-i Thumbstick break? You can now 3d print a replacement...
CD-i member Erik Jacob discussed with me the possibilities to replace the cap of the CD-i thumbstick. On several pictures on the internet it is clear this is a problem that occurs on more CD-i...
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Early professional CD-i players offered a caddy loading mechanism instead of...
The early professional players, including the very first CD-i player set (180/181/182) did not provide a standard CD tray like most CD-i players did, but they had a caddy loading system. This means...
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"Svenska CD-i magazinet" was a dedicated swedish cd-i magazine, full of...
Here you'll find an exclusive view on some scans of the swedisch CD-i Magazine. The first games have a planned release date in 1995. These magazines were printed in 1995 and 1996 (probably also older...
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This 1993 'CD-ROMS in print" magazine covers CD-i previews of Uninvited...
CD-i member Marco Parisio Java returns with more exclusive CD-i info. This time he offered us the CD-ROMs in Print magazine, published in 1993 and it was an international guide to multimedia on...
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From te Archive: Merijn talks to John Brooks, who was the lead programmer on...
There is no other CD-i game that made us wonder so much about what could have been on CD-i as the promising Super Mario's Wacky Worlds. This redesigned 'sequel' version of the SNES classic 'Super Mario...
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Concept art that reveals more of the promising link between New Media...
The computer developments of the New Media Systems department within Philips do not show a lot of details of what Philips visioned to be a multimedia link between their formats: PC, CD-i, MSX, how...
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Any fan of The Apprentice on CD-i should be familiar with the fact that a...
The Apprentice 2, Pipe Dream or Reality? The simple answer is a mix of both! First however what have we learnt? Any ardent fan of the hapless wizards original outing in The Apprentice should be...
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Is CD-i Region free? Are CD-i movies intended for the north american NTSC...
CD-i was a region free format which means that European PAL titles are playable on USA CD-i players. The CD-i format was worldwide compatible. Right? Not really. The Japanese CD-i titles, clearly...
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A new chapter is included in the official CD-i FAQ 2020 Edition, discussing...
Welcome to the original CD-i FAQ 2020 Edition, originally written by Jorg Kennis in early 2000 and updated in 2019 by Sebastiaan Batenburg, together with Jorg Kennis. Proudly presented by Interactive...
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Was CD-i also released in China? This boxart of Paint School has Chinese and...
CD-i member Candela shared with us another interesting piece of CD-i trivia. He has this CD-i demo disc of Paint School 1, published by Japan Interactive Media in 1991. But, instead of other discs that...
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Barclays also released "Complete your Financial Jigsaw" as part of the Home...
Do you remember the CD-i disc "Essentials - the new shape of home shopping by freemans (1994) (barclays - philips)", which was published in 1994? It is a professional CD-i disc that is quite important...
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Sony and Zoutewelle Multimedia developed the Elsevier Interactive Anatomy...
In 1996, Zoutewelle Multimedia was one of the few companies that were still pushing the CD-i, with quite a few CD-i titles mostly published as CD-i Bridge. This means that these discs were as well...
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Space Ace was one of the Don Bluth interactive cartoons that was released on...
International Creative Digital Image and Superclub brought the interactive versions of the Don Bluth cartoons to CD-i. "Space Ace is an arcade game originaly created by Don Bluth. In this interactive...
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Another picture series of the Sony CD-i Player "IVO-11" that marked the...
Sony released in the USA in 1992 the Sony IVO-11, together with the IVO-10, two Intelligent Discmans that were in fact base-case CD-i players. It features the same CD-i logo that was used mainly in...
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Zoutewelle Multimedia published a CD-i Bridge disc about the art of Mondrian...
Zoutewelle Multimedia published in 1995 a CD-i bridge format disc about the art of Mondrian. A CD-i bridge disc is playable on both CD-ROM as CD-i. The player which this disc is played on will...
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Another rare CD-i game: Wimbledon Challenge was a tennis quiz game released...
Wimbledon Challenge is a multiple-choice tennis quiz game for two players or teams in one of six languages. Questions are asked randomly from a base of hundreds about the players, matches and life...
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In 1997 CD-i offered courses to learn 'sign language' thanks to the dutch...
CD-i member Ekim Skirdneh shared with us scans of this rare professional CD-i. It is about learning sign language, published by TVA Mediaproducties BV and including content developed by Effatha....
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Wim van Bussel visited the Firato exposition in Amsterdam RAI, where CD-i was...
Wim van Bussel is a dutch journalist who has written several technical books about all kinds of electronics, inclusing hi-fi audio, photography, video formats and also CD-i. It gives a basic overview...
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This Socrates CD-i player is actually a Goldstar GDI-1000 CD-i player, but...
CD-i member Matt Tyrrell posted some pictures of his newly obtained Goldstar GDI-1000 Player, which is somehow rebranded to 'Socrates'. My memory tells me I have seen this Socrates name before, but I...
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We say goodbye to Tinin Mantegazza, who created the Dodò in L'Albero Azzurro,...
The creator behind the Dodo in RAI's L'Albero Azzurro unfortunately died at the age of 89. His creation was very popular in Italy, it feels a bit like the Italian equivalence of Sesame Street. which we...
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