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New Team members @ The World of CD-i

At The World of CD-i, each team member knows exactly what to do.
We are in constant contact each other, to define new projects and areas to work on.
That is why we proudly announce 2 new official team members for his respective target.

CD-i Fan, the Emulator creator.
He will exclusively work on the Title Development section, under the Open-Source project, and of course continue with BurnCycle (emulator tester) to make a better experience of his Emulator.

Alan_CDiZone the biggest CD-i lover I ever know!
He will provide some experience of his incredibly huge collection and other material to the site database.
He is the man behind the now sadly closed Philips CD-i Zone Facebook page. He is a very busy man, but he will for sure answer you as soon as possible.

Title Development:
CD-i Fan
English, Nederlands
cdifan@theworldofcdi.com

Titles Information:
Alan_CDiZone
English
alan_cdizone@theworldofcdi.com


Philips CD-i Backup Guide

We proudly upload our famous Philips CD-i Backup Guide under PDF format! 16 pages full of information in a “Do it Yourself” way.
Written by Blurb69 back in 2004, it is now updated to version 3.0.
The objective of the guide was and still is, to avoid using your original titles. We all know the difficulty to find CD-i titles due to high prices and the rarity of some of them. Using a copy of your own discs, you will protect your personal collection!

What’s new on version 3.0?
– Updated new website logo.
– Updated website links.
– Updated all freeware and shareware download links.
– Updated all tests under windows 7 with new screenshots.
– Added “What’s new?”.
– Translation of the Guide to French.

The French version was asked by so many people that it was impossible not to do it for them.

Download Now!
– English version
– French version


Leonardo Da Vinci 500 years death celebrating

The world is celebrating 500 years after the death of a Great Master.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific.
Born in Italy (Vinci) and died in France (Clos-Lucé). He past his all life in investing everything around him and invents many things that only today we able to reproduce.
His most famous work is La Gioconda, best known as Mona Lisa.

Why am I talking about him? What Leonardo Da Vinci has to see with CD-i?
EVERYTHING of course!
As an inventor, just like Philips, he was always ahead of its time, just like CD-i was.

Part of his work was also involved into the human anatomy, and this is why we want to celebrate the 500 years of his death with The Human Body, a Multimedia CD-i title based on Leonardo Da Vinci work, it will show you everything you need to know about the most complex and perfect mechanism in the universe.

Special thanks to Marco Parisio Java for the title covers.


Latest additions on the site – April/May 2019

The World of CD-i website is in constant updates.
We are always adding information like new titles, covers, screenshots, videos, etc…
Our website members are a great value for us, this is why we encourage you to register, this way you’ll be able to add yourself new stuff. We always add credits to our contributors!

The latest titles additions are:
Games
NFL – The Ultimate Football Collection – Triple Pack

Multimedia
A National Parks Tour (credits: Arethius_Rgc)
ADI Klasse 1+2 – Mathe
Around Hollywood
Kursbuch Gesundheit
n-tv 1995 – Gut zu Wissen
The Human Body (credits: Marco Parisio Java)

CD-i Music
The Downhome Blues
The Uptown Blues

Video-CD Music
Opera Imaginaire (credits: Thorsbabelis)
U2 – Rattle and Hum

DV on CD-i Music
Andrew Lloyd Webber – The Premiere Collection Encore
Bon Jovi – Keep The Faith
Cure – Show
Sting – Ten Summoner’s Tales

Demo
CD-i Demonstratie Disc
CD-i World
A Title Sampler

The latest covers additions are:
Games
Asterix® – Caesar’s Challenge (credits: Marco Parisio Java – Italian covers)
Burn Cycle (credits: Marco Parisio Java – Italian covers)
Do you remember the 60’s? (credits: Marco Parisio Java)
GO (credits: Marco Parisio Java – Italian covers)
NFL – Hall of Fame Football
Super Test (credits: Marco Parisio Java)

Kids
Il Tesoro dell’Isola dei Giochi (credits: Marco Parisio Java)
Stickybear® – Family Fun (credits: Marco Parisio Java)

CD-i Music
Rhythm Maker (credits: Arethius_Rgc)

Unreleased
Taco’s Toyroom Troopers (credits: Bas)
Tank Doodle (credits: Bas)

A Special Thanks to our contributors Arethius_Rgc, Marco Parisio Java, Bas and Thorsbabelis!
More is coming… 😉


CD-i emulation

Emulation is the term used when you want to make something work from a specific system, using something that is not the original platform.
In our case, play a CD-i title without the need of any dedicated player.

This quest isn’t new. Back to the early days of the interactive system development, Philips tried many ways to emulate CD-i titles to make it easier to develop new titles.

Find out all the different ways to emulate a CD-i title using a software.
Some of them are abandoned by their creator, others are still under development.