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Interactive Dreams talks to David Mullich from ISG Productions (Who developed...
Although ISG Productions had a seemingly short history with regards to CD-i gaming it shown a refreshing new way that attempted to play towards the platforms and indeed the studios strengths. ISG's...
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What to do when your CD-i player read CD-i discs for < 30 seconds and then...
When the laser of your CD-i player is dying (when it doesn't read any discs anymore) you might want to replace the laser unit. Depending on the CD-i player type, different laser units were used. You...
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Here is something you don't see often: CD-i member Jacob Davis opens his...
The Japanese company Kyocera (which is short for Kyoto Ceramics) is based in Kyoto, Japan and built together with Philips the very first CD-i player: The modular CD-i 180 set, including the CD-i 181...
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Do you consider 'Link: Faces of Evil' and Zelda: Wand of Gamelon' on CD-i...
I always wonder how you can say something like that. In the perspective of CD-i, especially considering the games that came out in 1993, I think these Link/Zelda games are pretty nice. The world is...
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The GDI-700m CD-i player was released under the LG brand, as well as under...
LG was, next to Philips, the company that was most active in the world of CD-i. There are different types of LG CD-i players, and even the portable Philips CD-i 370 player was a licensed LG model....
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CD-i Passport of "What's it Worth - The Auction Game" - 1994 - Marshall...
Developed by: Marshall Cavendish Multimedia / EpicPublished by: Unreleased, planned release by Philips Media in 1994, but that never happenedPlanned release: 1994. The final known prototype is a...
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The almost only promotion of the CD-i Harley Davidson Experience on CD-i was...
CD-i member Blazers is one of the very few CD-i collectors to have this 'Harley Davidson CD-i Experience' on CD-i. It is a very limited CD-i release that was hardly even promoted, but there is a small...
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The remastered versions of 'Link: Faces of Evil' and 'Zelda: Wand of Gamelon'...
"Hi everyone - the final community update is finally here. The Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon Remastered version 1.2 is now available, in 7 different languages! My good friend anonymous was kind...
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CD-i member Stovent is building a new experimental CD-i Emulator with the...
A free and Open Source Philips CD-i Emulator, would it be possible? The current emulation options do not offer the ultimate CD-i experience, mainly because there are very limited people who are capable...
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The ICDIA website has been updated with technical documentation of CD-i...
With the work of CD-i member TwBurn (Jeffrey Janssen) on the 'USB to CD-i' protocol he was looking for the keyboard documentation on ICDIA which appeared to be missing. CD-i member cdifan, who is the...
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The US company 'World of Wonders' released several CD-i titles as a rare...
Third party publisher World of Wonders released a couple of Video CD's and CD-i's in 1994-1995. These were advertised in CD-i Magazine in USA and sold via specific CD-i dealers or via World of Wonders....
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A rare piece of CD-i history: This BO console was prototype hardware for...
In August 2019, over a year back, we showed a unique CD-i related prototype: The BO Console, some kind of video synthesizer developed by Philips Research to test the graphical capabilities of the CD-i....
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Philips planned to release its own CD-i joystick and a prototype was shown to...
In a few promotional folders and magazines Philips showed a picture of this joystick. It already had a price and a part number, but in the end this joystick remained unreleased. Eventually, the only...
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Is it correct that the CD-i 180 does not support the regular CD-i pointing...
Jorg Kennis shares his knowledge about why the CD-i 180 player does not accept regular CD-i pointing devices and speculates about why it is different from the rest: Jorg: "CDI-180 pointing devices are...
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Rare CD-i Chronicles #53 - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Operation Desert Storm...
In 2009 we discovered an unknown professional CD-i title in the catalogue of PMPRO, and it was the first time we ever saw a picture of it. It was a training disc for soldiers about the Bradley Fighting...
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Rare Video CD Records #3: "The Ultimate Video Jukebox - Volume One"...
This CD-i bridge disc is actually a Video CD when played on a CD-i player but it offers more options when you play it on your PC. This includes a trivia quiz and also online media: When you connect the...
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Simon Lock brings a portable CD-i 350 player that has voltage and capacitor...
This is a contribution/compilation of the work by Simon Lock, an excellent CD-i friend who worked a lot on CD-i repairs. In this article he brings a CD-i 350 player back to life: There is no capacitor...
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Reader Question: "Is CD-i Emulator still being developed these days?"
The first CD-i Emulator was released 15 years ago and the author, CD-i Fan, has mentioned several times that he is still working on a new version. The current Digital Video support is actually pretty...
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There are still hundreds of missing CD-i discs out there used for very...
Philips CD-i was widely used at professional companies as training instrument, including popular brands like BP Oil, Pepsi Cola and Burger King. The training discs that were produced for Burger King...
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Reader Question: "Snes2CDi is using the analog pins, why is that, as both the...
The SNES2CDi adapter uses the analogue pins. Why? "You might be curious about the use of an analog input where there is no analog signal. The reason is that the CDi and the Arduino have different...
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