October 2020 – The World of CD-i

CDM Repair & Substituition

Chronicle #32 – CDM Repair & Substituition

More and more people are having issues with there CD-i player, especially with non disc recognition…
I found and helped (with other people trying to help) many of you on Facebook groups, Twitter, e-mail and other social media places.

I tried in this article to help you with the more information as possible and with the different ways of solving it.

Together we will solve your issues, one thing you have to keep in mind, like I always use to say, “NEVER LET A CD-i DIE!“.

Let’s start guys! Let’s take a look at the player’s CDM.

Find all the Hardware Repairs on our Open-Source section!

New Addition – Les Schtroumpfs – Le Téléportaschtroumpf

Our newest member Tetsuoshima con tributed to The World of CD-i with many titles from his own collection.
Let me highlight one them… Les Schtroumpfs – Le Téléportaschtroumpf from Infogrames, in a time this company got all the rights of the CD-i catalogue after Philips decided to abandon the system.

Check this unfold-able:

Thank you again Tetsuoshima!

Chronicle #30 – Marlboro – Follow Your Dreams

Chronicle #31 – Marlboro – Follow Your Dreams

Here is something we really don’t use to see a lot, Marlboro – Follow Your Dreams.
This is a free promotional disc from Philip Morris, the owner of Marlboro brand.
The objective was to promote the Marlboro Adventure Team that used in the 90’s to make sports adventures events all around the world. Motorbike, jeep and rafting was the main sports all combined into an unique competition where the American cowboy lifestyle was also very improved. During 10 days teams from all around the world raced to be the best.

This promotional disc is a German release from Philip Morris GmbH back in 1993, one year after the official 1st Marlboro event.

This is a CD-i Ready disc, that means it will work in a CD-i player and an Audio CD player (music only).
Here are the music just for you! Keep listening the music while reading the review. 😉
Remember, you can download the MP3 music by clicking on the right mouse’s button and choosing “Save as…”.

Keep reading…

One Arabian School CD-i disc discovered

I found this title right after Blazers explained on our forum how he discovered his beautiful Knowlogy CD-i player.
I am in touch with people who worked on those titles, let’s see if we can get more information about those 103 different Arabian CD-i titles.

It says:

General Agent: Saudi Knowledge Company, Abanami Commercial Center, Salah El Din Al Ayoubi Road.
6th Grade of Primary School
Ministry of Acquaintance
Knowlogy – Knowledge
GP61
Year 1997

As the 103 titles are for School Grades from 1 to 12, this specific disc is for Grade 6th.
We have to discover if the GP61 have something to see with the Grade 6.

More info soon…

Knowlogy K2000-MSS CD-i player

Blazers, once again, contributed on our Forum with this Knowlogy K2000-MSS CD-i player.

Here is his cote:

Turns out that we can add a whole new part of the World to the list of places where CDi got some action back in the day:

From Ebay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-CD-I-Knowlogy-CD-INTERACTIVE-PROCESSOR-MODEL-K2000-MSS-1997-/203133203478?pageci=82dfd023-77bb-48ea-8d9b-0d4d633b541b

It arrived intact, and includes the remote. There’s an odd power prong for which I’ll need an adapter before testing it.

Now, I made sure to do some research on this, but all I found was the following:

http://www.aast.edu/en/centers/aast_centers/contenttemp.php?page_id=41000004

Here’s the relevant info:

Developing 103 educational courses on CD-ROM and CD-I discs revised and authorized by the Ministry of Education of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (grades 1 to 12) in cooperation with Knowlogy International.”

So for Arabian CDi software, there could be over 100 titles, none of which have anything online about them.

Does anyone here know anything further on these Knowlogy players and titles?

And in case anyone is interested, yes, I am willing to sell or trade the player for CDis that I don’t yet own.