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The Crayon Factory – Printable Painting Book


The Big Box version of The Crayon Factory included a 8 Crayola crayon set, and a painting book with the game’s characters and themes.
Thanks to Marco Parisio Java who sent to us the Italian Big Box version, we proudly invite you to download the PDF Painting Book and then, print it to let your children paint it just like in the 90’s!
16 draws ready to be print and paint!

You can download it right here:
The Crayon Factory – Painting Book

It is also available on The Crayon Factory page on the Download tab.


New titles addition!

We have added new titles on our data base:

CBR – Theorie Examen – Demo Disk
Megapool TV-Wandpresentatie
ERM Produkt Catalogus #3
Free Gold Club Disk
Depression – The Search for the NaSSA
Bilinçli Seçim
Annual Report 1992/1993
Muziek in Economie

Enjoy!


I Want One – Catalogue 10/1995

I want to thank you @itsmecurrie, a retro gaming lover from Twitter for sending this great “I Want One” CD-i catalogue from October 1995.
I meat him on Twitter day 24th of May, and he did sent this amazing catalogue!
Those catalogue numbers included on each titles will help us to add the missing ones.
Thank you again!
Check it out!


CD Graphics – A forgotten format


I am an Alphaville fan, this is known from everyone. As they do have a CD Graphics (CD+G) album called Alphaville – The Breathtaking Blue, this format is for me very precious for me.

There is another person with the same felling about the CD+G discs, I am talking about Orlando Arroyo, his name may not be familiar to you as it should be.
I meet Orlando back in 2004, when he was in search of all CD-G discs. This is when Le Monde du CD-i (now The World of CD-i) started to include all the collection in the data base.
Orlando Arroyo and his friend Steve Martin decided to create a website that include all CD+G discs ever created, the CD Graphics Museum, with videos (also available on there YouTube channel), screenshots and disc information.

You really should take a moment and visit this real museum dedicated to this forgotten CD format.

Orlando shared with us on our Facebook Support Group an historic picture from a magazine he can’t remember the name. You can see this picture at the top of this article.
This is a timeline that goes from 1877 until 1991, more than 100 years, and the Philips CD-i is the start that everyone is awaiting!

The CD-Graphics was a very expected format in the early 90’s, music album with pictures on screen that can play on any Audio-CD or CD+G player, with text appearing on screen to sing along. The Karaoke discs was about to born!
Philips couldn’t left this CD format out of the CD-i player and extend the wide list of compatibility that this interactive system offer.

Thank you Orlando! Thank you to preserve this format for future generations!


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!