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Reader Question: "About CD-i Emulator, what does the "framerate" (ie 48/50)...
They are a buggy attempt at indicating: The actual rendered frames out of the last 50 or 60 (if the emulation lags behind, cdiemu will skip frames for rendering, it will still emulate the correct...
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A small detail to recognize the english and french big box version of The 7th...
CD-i member Arethius RGC recently showed us all his versions of The 7th Guest on CD-i. We never paid attention to it before, but here we have the French and English version of the big box version of...
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#onthisday: CD-i software from 'Multimedia Lab' about τεχνολογια...
This Greek 'CD-i demo' shows the island Chios on the cover , from 'Multimedia Lab' about τεχνολογια (=Technology). Today exactly two year ago we received the news of a package that CD-i member...
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Pros and cons of the CD-i gamepads > They offered speed buttons as well and...
The CD-i gamepads are not always praised for being very well designed and responsive compared to the competition. Philips even launched the CD-i without one, but soon came up with a licensed design of...
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'Big Bang Show' on CD-i is even named 'Pop up' in the memory screen of your...
Big Bang Show was a game developed by Infogrames in 1994 on the CD-i. CD-i member DataPro: "Big Bang Show is a game from Infogrames, a remake of an old Amstrad game called Bumpy and already remade...
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CD-i Classic Advertisement #27 - Philips Media used the same theme/lay-out of...
Philips Media published heavily in printed media to advertise CD-i. The CD-i hardware and software was promoted in CD-i catalogues, CD-i magazines around the world but also in local videogames...
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The problem why 'The Lost Vikings' on CD-i never happened was the lack of...
One of the more fabled CD-i titles is The Lost Vikings on CD-i. It was announced, but after that it disappeared from the CD-i release list. In August 1994, CD-i Magazine pressed a very interesting...
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Reader Question: "Has anyone seen disc rot on his CD-i discs? What does disc...
One of the worries we have with optical media is that in the end, the material degrades and the disc will be unreadable in the end: disc rot. CD-i member Just Noah asks: "What does disc rot look like?...
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Will the BGM-CD's (Background Music CD) run on CD-i Emulator?
Interesting exercise to emulate one of the BGM-CD's on CD-i Emulator 0.53 beta 4 and MAME, something that CD-i members VWS and Retrostuff tried. "I tried it with cdiemu and only get Title has expired....
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When was 'Lords of the Rising Sun' actually released, when the EU boxart...
"Japan, 12th century. After your father has been murdered, you set out on a quest to become Shogun to restore the honor of your family. You'll have to defeat all your enemies - including your brother....
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These 'interactive light plans' of the metro maps in Paris, France, were...
Interesting details from 'International Conference on Public Transport Electronic Systems', published in 1996 on page87 – 89 it is mentioned that the Interactive Light Plans in 12 metro stations in...
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CD-i member Xenon (Salva) discovered new Video CD additions which were...
In Spain perhaps one of the most productive CD-i companies was LAB CD-i, a Philips internal division, who translated several spanish versions of games like Burn:Cycle and Asterix. In Spain they...
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This clay sculpture is from Food Dude, an unreleased CD-i project by Viridis,...
Thanks to the power of online auctions, we've seen many rare CD-i pieces come by including various clay sculptures which were used in CD-i games like Laser Lords and Zelda's Adventure. This one is...
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More CD-i's you've never seen before, this time again about company emergency...
CD-i member Steep Haywire shared more rare CD-i's - he keeps sharing CD-i discs that we've never seen before. Do you remember the CD-i emergency response training HELP that we showed you in January? A...
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The first version of Alien Gate on CD-i shows the face of the evil on the...
A few weeks back we showed you the physical update of Alien Gate and the fact that the first version of Alien Gate on CD-i would not go beyond level 5 on certain players due to some software bugs....
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The Green Book mentions MIDI as an extension that requires additional...
A while back CD-i member Retrostuff brought up the MIDI sound features of CD-i and hinted the CD-i title "EZ Play Piano/Keyboard" indicated it supports MIDI according to the announcements in...
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The look-a-likes 'LG GDI-700M' and 'DVS VE-200' seen from different angles;...
This DVS VE-200 CD-i console was originally aimed at the professional CD-i market and it was a licensed model of the LG GDI 7000 CD-i player with a slightly different front panel. CD-i member Orlando...
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Screenshots of Atlantis: The Last Resort and Ram Raid were never this sharp...
We have never seen footage of Raim Raid this sharp, this one looks pixel perfect, wow! We hope one day to be able to play this again. Atlantis was the codename and eventually commercial title for this...
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Reader Question: "I have a brand new CD-i 210 player, never used and still in...
What if you have a brand new CD-i player somewhere still lying around, for about 30 years untouched. It is inside its original packaging, still sealed. Would it still work? What would it be worth?...
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Rare CD-i Records #104 - Leren Leren / School 2000 (1996, Smile, Ministerie...
"'Leren Leren' is one of the few from the School 2000 initiative that has turned up, and there were many others. Most seem to have had heavy DV segments. " - The School 2000 series was developed by...
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