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The CD-i Touchpad has a left-handed feature

The Touchpad with reference 22ER9017 is the one based on the Gravis Ultrapad and built by Logitech.

It has 4 buttons:
2 times button #1
1 time button #2
1 time button #3 (#1+#2)

A speed selector is available in the bottom front side, on the right. You can choose between normal speed and double speed for the cursor.

This Touchpad also have an amazing feature, not available on any other CD-i controllers: it is possible to be used by left handed persons. A selector is available in the top front side, on the left.

After activated it, just turn the controller upside down and all the controls will switch. The D-pad will work just like if the controller was in the correct position.

This feature is very similar as the Atari Lynx portable console, also for Left-handed persons.

 

The player’s remote controls (both wireless and the wired one from the 450 model) are also left-handed design, that is why button #1 and #2 are always isometric. But this time, no need to turn them upside down! 😉

And you, have you ever tried this Touchpad feature?


New Addition – Marilyn Monroe

Philips Consumer Electronics presents a collection of many Photo-CD, and Marilyn Monroe is one of them.
Those titles, with a catalogue number as the ones used on the CD-i titles are Deutsche exclusive ones.
We have 3 of them on our database:
Marilyn Monroe, House of Windsors, ELLE Trends 92/93.

You can verify in the booklet the promotion Philips is doing to the Photo-CD players, explaining all details and options.

This Marilyn Monroe title include 95 pictures. When you used to make a Photo-CD on a Kodak store (if you ever made one), all the pictures you wished to include on the disc was shown on the back of the cover.
In this professional disc, those pictures are shown inside the booklet.

Thank you who?
Blazers and Seventy7 of course!


New Addition – Bradley Fighting Vehicle

Here is a Professional CD-i title called Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

This title has need produced by ProSoft for the US Army Infantry School. The objective was to train soldiers to manipulate the Bradley Fighting Vehicles used on the Operation Desert Storm and learn about all the equipment.
They learn about all the different equipment, the localisation of the all most important parts of the vehicle and how to access them, like the engine. The missiles and ammo localisations, smoke grenades and other material. How to use the GPS, the night vision and many others equipment.
A lot of Full Motion Video is used on this title with real soldiers using real fighting vehicles. Everything is well explained in detail.

After everything learn, you also can check the Glossary for extra information about a specific item.

Finally, a test for a soldier will be offered, after the Sustainment Training.
The soldier have to inter his Security Social Number (SSN) and he will answer 20 questions. You will know if the answer is correct, but if it is wrong, you will also know the correct answer.
After the test done, you have to exit the game and access the Storage of your CD-i player to check your results.
Your SSN will be shown as the points of your test.

Once again, thank you Blazers for the CD-i title and Seventy7 for the covers.


New Addition – Schöner Fernsehen – Aquarium

This is one of the 4 available titles that will turn your television into your favourite screen!
Schöner Fernsehen – Aquarium created in 1995 by WestCom is a German exclusive title.
With this title, your television will turns into an ocean!
Underwater videos, waves, fishes, all in Full Motion Video.

Schöner Fernsehen – Kaminfeuer
Schöner Fernsehen – Meeresbrandung
Schöner Fernsehen – Vogelparadies
Schöner Fernsehen – Aquarium

Rosewood from Retrostuff told us it is a Video-CD and not a CD-i title.
We can clearly see “Compact Disc Interactive” on the disc spo I asked Blurb69 to verify this point and he confirmed it. We have updated the database entries from the 4 titles and have completed all the missing cover scans.
The fact of the “Compact Disc Interactive” being on the disc and the “Digital Video on CD-i” on the cover is just to show the compatibility and not the exclusivity.
So, it isn’t also a CD-i Bridge, even if you can see “Windows Compatible” due to the fact it is indeed a Video-CD.

Thank you once again Blazers & Seventy7 for the contribution.


Discord CD-i room

Who never heard of Discord? It is commonly used in the gaming communities, and now, the CD-i also have a dedicated place on it.
Randam Hajile created the server and Dopply made the rest of the job.

We have been invited directly by Dopply to join it.
As all other CD-i sites are represented there, we found normal to also be there to give a 24/7 support for all our already members and other people (CD-i lovers or not).

Join the Discord CD-i room right now!

Back in 2005, on Le Monde du CD-i, we already had a live 24/7 chat based on mIRC embed on the site and we meet a lot of people. Some of them are now on this new Discord server. At that time some people used to say it was a nonsense place… but it seams we was a little bit ahead… or others was a little bit against…

This Discord server is an independent place, not related to any other websites.