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Philips integrated their CD-i technology in the FW380I stereo-set: Crazy or...
Philips integrated their CD-i technology in different other consumer electronics models, like a television and in a stereo radio. In this setup, your cassettes and FM radio are combined with a CD...
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Paul Clarke shares picture of 1994 from his desk at Philips Research Redhill...
Paul Clarke: "[This is] 1994 at Philips Research Labs Redhill, me working on the CD-i debugger "NIRD (Non-Intrusive Realtime Debugger) which we then used on games like 7th Guest, and it helped me write...
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Philips Media sponsored Woodstock 1994 and brought 90 CD-i systems to the...
Philips Media was sponsor of the Woodstock 1994 festival and it organized a Multimedia Village in the "Surreal Field" at Woodstock. They showed games like Burn:Cycle and Mutant Rampage and some music...
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Shikotei found hidden secrets in Lucky Luke CD-i and even an undiscovered...
CD-i member Shikotei found some very nice secrets in Lucky Luke CD-i while he was recreating the level lay-outs. Shikotei: "This game... was a (bleep) to figure out. At least map-wise a (bleep). The...
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CD-i Classic Advertisement: Philips advertises The 7th Guest without printing...
The best advertisements are those where you don't have to actually call the name itself, sometimes it speaks for itself :)
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Retrostuff.org published a patch to get past the "Cake Puzzle Bug" in The 7th...
Retrostuff.org is a great site, owned by someone who is exploring the deep technical details about hardware (like repairing the CD-i 350) and software (like here, developing a patch). Thankfully for...
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Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces on CD-i was also released in Japan by Japan...
It's difficult to get a complete list of the CD-i games that were released in Japan. If we only look at games, we know of three specific japanese game releases on CD-i: 'Mah-Jong', 'Golgo 13' and...
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Did the Italian version of "Palm Springs Open" on CD-i make a mistake in the...
Here you see the Italian cover of CD-i golf game "The Palm Springs Open". Below the picture it sais "Il primo gioco con veri campi di calcio e veri giocatori" which translates to "the first game with...
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Not all CD-i players supported the wireless IR remote; How did Philips solve...
The 22ER9057 was an official Philips peripheral for the CD-i; it was the wireless IR box to connect a wireless remote to a CD-i player that did not support wireless remotes, like the CD-i 450 that did...
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Christmas Country CD-i: a game with a lot of secret passages, hidden areas,...
Shikotei recreated the levels of Christmas Country CD-i and found a lot of secret passages inside. Shikotei: "One of the few games that I feel was not completed. Rushed to market too soon. Biggest...
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The box art of Atlantis: The Last Resort on CD-i has no resemblance with the...
The art that is found on the box art of Atlantis: The Last Resort actually is nowhere to be found back in the game. And anything that is in the game, does not come back on the boxart. It seems like...
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The "CD-i Base" project by cdifan is still alive and plans to become a full...
Almost 10 years ago, cdifan was starting "CD-i Base". It was on a small side menu in the cdiemu.org homepage. The CD-i Base library was "going to be a collection of library functions that can be used...
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The end of CD-i started with this article in 'Management Team'-magazine in...
CD-i was supposed to be a dutch example of innovation. But unfortunately Philips took two unfortunate steps to keep CD-i more positive in the news. At several presentations Philips did not allow...
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Explore Tolemac (The overworld in Zelda's Adventure CD-i) including dungeons...
CD-i member Shikotei is very clever in extracting code, raw data and getting unknown CD-i formatting out of a lot of CD-i games, to find hidden graphics, full level layout and other secrets. No one...
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We found more about Aliens Interactive: A lost unreleased CD-i prototype by...
After CD-i member Erronous discovered Aliens Interactive CD-i for the first time in 2005 in a resume and posted it on the blog soon after, we've seen it on many places on the internet. The extra...
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The History of Interactive Dreams started with my personal CD-i writings in 1995
With over 1000 articles on the blog and an even bigger archive at the CDinteractive Forum resources I think most of my joy in CD-i is fueled by the many CD-i prototypes and stories from developers....
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Unboxing video + testing the Goldstar GPI-1200M portable CD-i player
A rare close-up view of a new Goldstar portable CD-i player. The prolonged and somewhat uneasy genesis of DVD has tended to overshadow the steady development of CDi (CD interactive) as a convenient,...
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