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Reader Question: "Can you replace the CD-i's battery-backed NV-RAM Timekeeper...
All the common CD-i players by Philips have a NV-RAM Timekeeper battery on-board. It keeps your savegames and it keeps the settings and the clock. The chip is powered by a battery and when it runs...
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Skybound on CD-i was presented as a four disc CD-i set and looked like an...
This Skybound CD-i set was presented on a demo disc called 'CD-i World' and published in 1994 by Valkieser Multimedia. It was recently discovered by CD-i member Retrostuff, posting the video on our...
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When the Timekeeper Battery Chip of your CD-i player is dead, will it...
That depends on the CSD, every time you use your CD-i player for a specific function, the CSD is over written, if the next time, the battery is dead and the CSD can't be updated anymore, that's a...
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A collection of CD-i demonstration discs from a former sales representative...
Once in a while a full collection of CD-i demonstration discs pop up in an auction which belonged to a former sales representative in the USA. These white discs are originally used by sales people,...
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As of today you can download the first original homebrew CD-i game for free:...
For the first time since its original release in 2007, the first homebrew CD-i game 'Frog Feast' is now available for download at the Archive.org page of Seventy7, the 'Preserve CD-i' area. Lots of...
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This USA CD-i mailorder announced Star Wars: Rebel Assault, Microcosm,...
You are looking at the insides of a USA mailorder brochure by Philips Media presenting the highlights of Fall/Winter 1993. It was shared by CD-i member Leon Kiriliuk. There is some art in it that we...
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Nice Pixel Art of Zelda's Adventure on CD-i thanks to the recent improvements...
Thanks to CD-i member Glutko we can experience this pixel art of Zelda's Adventure on CD-i, as he ripped the art thanks to recent improvements in the MAME CD-i emulation effort. You can find all his...
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Rare CD-i Records #77 - CD-i / Video-CD Titel-Neuheiten 1/95 Demo-Disc...
This German exclusive CD-i title sampler was published by Philips Interactive Media Deutschland GmbH in 1995, featuring video's of various (upcoming) CD-i discs. This disc featured the games Chaos...
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CD-i member Jacob Davis bought the TaliLaser 2000 CD-i Player and he shows us...
CD-i member Jacob Davis recently has built up a very nice collection of CD-i players. He picked up this CD-i 615 player we posted here and even the recent DVS VE-200 player from this article. Today he...
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Rare CD-i Records #78 - Larousse Multimedia Diccionario Enciclopidico...
Another rare Encyclopedia from Larousse, this was a Spanish exclusive CD-i published in 1995. Larousse published various encyclopedias on CD-ROM but as far as we know this is the first version on...
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More specific 'CD-i World' discs shared by CD-i member Videogames Obsession -...
CD-i member Videogames Obsession shared a few pictures of these CD-i World discs, which in name sound familiar when we posted about Skybound, as this was also on a CD-i World disc, but these ones are...
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The Digital Video Cartridge offers, next to MPEG1 functionality, also 1MB...
Reader Question: "I know the DVC is required for some titles - from a technical aspect does it only provide FMV functionality to the games that need it or does it expand the capabilities in any other...
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Reader Question: "Are there any Easter eggs hidden in CD-i games?"
Happy Easter! CD-i member Jaco van Schie asks us if there are any Easter eggs hidden in CD-i games? Of course we remember the well-known naked and violent scenes in The Apprentice: When you push a...
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One of the biggest design flaws in CD-i is the Timekeeper chip with...
One of the biggest design flaws in CD-i is in our opinion the Timekeeper chip with integrated battery. The technique itself works well but the fact the battery (a CR2032) cannot be replaced once it is...
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Rare CD-i Records #79 - CD-i / Video-CD Titel-Neuheiten 11/95 Demo-Disc...
Ten months after releasing "CD-i / Video-CD Titel-Neuheiten 1/95", Philips Interactive Media Deutschland released a follow-up version, going strong with the name "CD-i / Video-CD Titel-Neuheiten...
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CD-i Fanart Collection #11 - CD-i Zelda and Link including a few new details
CD-i member Hoodie created a lot of fanart about Zelda and Link and now as well drew these nice CD-i versions. Hoodie: "CD-i Link and Zelda! Just added some little parts on their outfits but I hope it...
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The PS5 is big, but not as big as the CD-i
Here is a nice comparison between the system sizes of the PS5 and a CD-i 220. For many wo have a PS5 in their hands will wonder if consoles keep getting bigger: The same counts for CD-i: The original...
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Futuropolis on CD-i gives an insight of what the future holds - but it was...
The Futuropolis CD-i was an initiative of the Dutch libraries and executed by Explainer Interactive in 1994; It gives a forecast on how the libraries of the future would look like. The timeframe is...
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A sidestep from CD-i: Herman Budde builds a JagCDiTV as a hommage to Philips...
Most of the Atari Jaguar CD hardware is based on the Philips CDM 12.1 mechanism, also built by Philips. The CDM mechanism is also in CD-i players. Philips employee Herman Budde started a project to...
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'Muziek in Economie' was the Interactive Annual Report of Free Record Shop,...
SPC Vision had a close relation with Free Record Shop and they made a couple of CD-i discs together. The most notable example is the CD-i Bundle disc, which includes playable demo's of The Apprentice,...
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