Author Archives: omegalfa

Chronicle #11 – Make your own CD-i Port Splitter for 2 player games!

The World of CD-i Chronicle #11

You have some 2 players games but never experienced them by playing in 2 players mode?
Don’t worry, you have not the only one, this is actually a very common situation, and for many reasons… but believe me, you don’t know what you are missing!
The first one is because a CD-i gamepad is expensive, so imagine having 2 gamepads…
The 2nd one is because not all CD-i players allow you to connect 2 controllers without the need of a special accessory.

Let’s create your own CD-i Port Splitter for 2 player games!

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Chronicle #10 – The Apprentice – Review

The World of CD-i Chronicle #10

For this review, there is a lot to talk about!
The Apprentice is for sure one of the absolutely best games available on CD-i, this is a must have and a must play title!
This platformer game from The Vision Factory (1994)  and published by Philips Media is graphically perfect, with amazing animations!

Rear the full article here!


Chronicle #9 – The World of CD-i History!

The World of CD-i Chronicle #9

The website celebrate April’s Fools Days 1 year after we came back. But the story is longer than that… let’s have a look together!

Officially launched on the 13th of March 2003, the first ideas dated from 1997, six years earlier. Unfortunately without any computer to create the website, Omegalfa (Portugal) kept all CD-i related stuff over the years and later near the fall of December 2002 started to code the 1st version of the Le Monde du CD-i website…

Keep reading!


Thank you Topxicemu and good luck!


Our Open-Source responsible Topxicemu, is leaving The World of CD-i team.
Belgian but living in Canada, this CD-i addicted have to say good bye to us.
His job and new projects don’t let him focus into the CD-i scene as much as he would like to.
He was always working on the shadow but did some great work along the years since I meet him 15 years ago.
He is the responsible of the still not concluded “CD-i Repair Guide” in French. We worked together to increase the information on the guide. Some websites and forums share the pictures of the guide, with the original file we will add it on The World of CD-i translated to English.
During the year 2019 he was mostly giving support to our user’s hardware problems.

At The World of CD-i, we are now 6 in the team, I will share with CD-i Fan the Open-Source section.

We wish you the best for your new career!
Thank you Brother!
Stay safe!


Chronicle #8 – Alien Gate – Review


Chronicle #8

With my job and the Covid-19 who took the whole week, I had to make a last minute chronicle!
Oh damn! What the hell?! Hell? Yeah! Hell!  Let’s talk about Alien Gate!

SOME HISTORY:
This is not my favourite game, by far, but there is some very cool graphics on it. When Philips was still balancing between the family multimedia player and the gaming introduction, SPC Vision came with a demo of this game and Philips loved it! Very worked graphics for the early 90’s.
This is how Alien Gate came to the Philips CD-i, from a scratch demo made by a new programmer that became a SPC Vision employee.

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