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Rare CD-i Records #82 - Goya Grabador – Luces y Sombras (LAB CD-i, 1996)
Francisco de Goya was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a...
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This is the proposed cover of Zelda's Adventure in USA: Philips Media Systems...
This might look like a standard cover of Zelda's Adventure on CD-i but this is cover of the unreleased USA version of Zelda's Adventure. It could be that it was not final but it is very interesting to...
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Reader Question: "How would you say is the current CD-i Emulator...
The Philips CD-i system is compatible with several CD standards besides CD-i: It also supports Photo CD, Video CD (VCD), BGM (Background Music) CD, Audio CD, and a couple of hybrid formats. How does...
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Victory Interactive created the Swiss Click Encyclopedia in 1994 on CD-i -...
Another interesting piece of CD-i history from the archive of The Swiss Parliament. The Swiss authorities subsidized a plan to create the Swiss Click Encyclopedia on CD-i and CD-ROM in 1994, full of...
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Reader Question: "The CD-i KeyControl keyboard has a KT switch, what is it for?"
Philips sold a keyboard for CD-i players called CD-i KeyControl. The keyboard could be used to enter Favourite Track Selection names for CD-Audio discs in the player's startup shell, for entering text...
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Labyrinth of Crete on CD-i was an adaptation from the 1984 text adventure by...
Labyrinth of Crete was the third and final CD-i title by Cliff Johnson for the Philips CD-i. Cliff: "Labyrinth of Crete is a challenging tale of Greek mythology in which you must appease both the King...
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An exclusive Japanese CD-i mailer thanks to CD-i member Seventy7, full of...
Thanks to the Japanese CD-i 205 player bought by Blazers (you can read about it here) - some original Japanese flyers found its way to the vault of Seventy7 and Blazers. These are exclusive scans about...
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Your CD-i player was, even in 1994, ready to output a 16:9 widescreen format
At least, some models were! And that's, depending on where you lived in the heydays of CD-i around 1994, pretty much agead of its time. Widescreen formats were pushed through worldwide around 1997...
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The differences are in the details in these two versions of CD-i's...
This picture was shared by CD-i member Steep Haywire a while ago, and it shows the CD-i game 'International Tennis Open'. On the left there is a green version which we don't see often. The game was...
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In the end, Wolfenstein 3D ran too slow on CD-i so Philips had to invent some...
You might never recognized it but the wall structures in Ram Raid and Atlantis: The Last Resort hold a little secret. The textures had to be optimized a lot to run smoothly on CD-i. One of the software...
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The mysterious black CD-i briefcase
This was a black metal/plastic briefcase that held a CDI 210 and a thumbstick controller, along with the power cord that had a euro plug and the blue "Alles over CD-i" disc. The case was not amateur...
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Rare Photo CD Records #7 - Arts on Disk "Classic Cars" (TopWare, 1994)
x TopWare released more on CD-i than we were aware of a year ago: We've seen interesting Video CD's and quite some Photo CD's. This one is from the series 'Arts on Disk', another German exclusive Photo...
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More CD-i prototypes are dumped on Hidden Palace, like a rare demo version of...
Thanks to the preservation efforts of The Hidden Palace another wave of 25 demonstration discs and testing phase CD-i titles were dumped and are available for download. We mentioned before at Hidden...
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The aftermarket CD-i releases (like homebrew and prototype re-releases) are...
At Interactive Dreams, we were always limited in sharing dumps with the internet, as we are/were often close with the developers and we are/were more interested in the background and history rather...
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This early version of the Web-i software was a CD-i prototype that could...
This early version of the Web-i CD-i software is something interesting to be preserved. Your CD-i player was capable of being connected to the Internet thanks to the CD-i Internet kit. It was a package...
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The final CD-i title was published in March 2009: 'Fahren Lernen Interaktiv'...
The German company 'Vogel Verlag' created the very last CD-i program in 2009 by releasing another update of their driving school lessons on CD-i: Fahren Lernen Interaktiv was a 5-disc package that...
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"De Zaak van Sam" - From Philips Research Laboratories Redhill with Love
One of the first true 'interactive movies' was the Dutch exclusive "De Zaam van Sam". It came to my attention that on the disc of 'De Zaak van Sam' it is giving thanks to Philips Research...
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Reader Question: "What is the difference between the 'Philips Media...
You are looking at the Dutch and Belgian release. The encyclopedia database was licensed by Standaard, both the Dutch and Belgian version are the same. But Standaard is well known in Belgium, but it...
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Rare CD-i Records #83 - LTV Allemand (Language TV) (Jeriko, Victoria...
LTV Allemand was the first CD-i edition of the 'Language TV' series by Jeriko and Victoria Multimedia. In this series there are more CD-ROM editions like LTV Anglais and LTV Francais. The CD-i version...
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Here's another exclusive Japanese CD-i title: This professional CD-i was used...
Next to the Manna Space professional Japanese CD-i titles we have not seen any other professional Japanese CD-i title before. CD-i member Nyamosu_Retro (猫爪にゃもす@肉体錬成中) shared a unique CD-i with us...
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