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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.


Donation to the site


The world of CD-i is a free website and it will stay this way. But some money is needed to keep it running year after year, that is why a yellow donation logo as been added in the upper right side of the page. By clicking on it you will be able to contribute to the cost of this huge resource website maintenance.

We ask your help for any contribution you may be able to offer.
We don’t need a huge amount but the sufficient to keep running the site.

People who pay/contribute for something always need to know why they do that, this also applies to this case.

We need to pay:
– The server and keep it in good health.
– Domain name registration.
– WordPress wiki system and plugins.

What we offer:
– A free navigation advertisements experience, no popup opening windows!
– A continued website updates with tons of new stuff like titles info, screenshots, scanned covers and videos.

Give what you want, from 1€ to whatever you like, the extra money we get will be invest on paid extensions for a better experience over the site. Donate with PayPal or donate with a Debit or Credit Card.

We also accept any other kind of donation. If you have CD-i related material like player, accessories or titles.
All we receive will be posted in the news pages. A repair article will be done if needed, juts like a review of a title.

Visiting the site, if you find missing info about a title you own, please let us know by contacting us.

The World of CD-i team thank you very much for any contribution you may make.


#CDiDay on Twitter

Our member and Live Streamer CDiArcade started in March of this year on Twitter an exciting project!
It’s called #CDiDay and the objective of it is very simple but also very pertinent…
Every Friday, he tweets CD-i related messages with or without pictures adding every time the hashtag #CDiDay.
In April (a few weeks after the site opening) we got a nice chat together and he invited me to help him in his honourable quest.
I am now proudly inviting you to do the same if you have a Twitter account.

Every Friday, tweet a CD-i related message using hashtag #CDiDay. More than once a day if possible!

The more people will see it, the more about CD-i they will talk on Twitter!
With some luck, your followers will retweet them. It is a good way to spread the good word over the net and who knows… call the attention of game journalists or other retro specialists.

It’s in your hands now to help us! Long life to #CDiDay!

You can find and follow me on Twitter under @omegalfapt.