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School 2000 project

The School 2000 was a Philips Media project for the future of education at schools. With the idea of modernising classes with new technology, a TV screen and a CD-i player.
Helping teachers with new methods of teaching and students new methods of learning.
Many titles were specifically developed for this project. Some of them can be easily recognised as they have this beautiful logo on the cover.
Other titles including edutainment (kids titles) and multimedia, usually used on Philips Media consumer catalogues also became available for the School 2000.

We deliberately haven’t added more than 20 titles into this list, as they still haven’t been found and preserved. To avoid any pricing speculation (rarity), we will only add them here after being preserved.

I asked Mr Data and Anata to create this School 2000 vectored logo from an old and used scanned one.
It took Anata 2 hours to complete this artwork.
Thank you for this amazing work!

Anata is the same person who also vectored the Digital Video Cartridge logo.
Most of the DVC titles have this logo on the box.

TITLES:

  1. A Child is Born
  2. AIMS CD Instructor – Temperature, Pressure and Humidity
  3. AIMS CD Instructor – Photosynthesis
  4. AIMS CD Instructor – Learning About Ecology
  5. AIMS CD Instructor – Insects: Reproduction and Metamorphosis
  6. AIMS CD Instructor – How We Classify Animals
  7. AIMS CD Instructor – How Animals Survive
  8. AIMS CD Instructor – Frogs and How They Live
  9. AIMS CD Instructor – Evolution: Change Through Natural Selection
  10. AIMS CD Instructor – Exploring our Solar System
  11. AIMS CD Instructor – Civil War: 4 Years of War and Its Aftermath
  12. AIMS CD Instructor – Civil War: The South Secedes and War Begins
  13. AIMS CD Instructor – Animal Communities
  14. AIMS CD Instructor – A First Look at Birds
  15. AIMS CD Instructor – Bees and How They Live
  16. AIMS CD Instructor – Beavers and How They Live
  17. AIMS CD Instructor – Animal Life in a Tidepool
  18. AIMS CD Instructor – Wind, Fronts and Storms
  19. AIMS CD Instructor – A First Look at Trees
  20. AIMS CD Instructor – A First Look at Mammals
  21. AIMS CD Instructor – Ecosystems: Nature in Balance
  22. CD-i in Schools
  23. European Party
  24. In the Wake of Captain Cook
  25. Interactive Math – Whole Numbers
  26. Interactive Math – Percentages
  27. Interactive Math – Decimals
  28. Interactive Math – Fractions
  29. Journeys Through Victorian London
  30. Leren Leren
  31. Muzzy™
  32. Routes to Reading
  33. Shipwreck
  34. Soundtrap
  35. Space Safari
  36. Stickybear® – Math
  37. Stickybear® – Preschool
  38. Stickybear® – Reading
  39. “The Great Art Series” – A Revolution in Color
  40. “The Great Art Series” – Dutch Masters of the 17th Century
  41. “The Great Art Series” – Harvest of the Sun – Van Gogh
  42. “The Great Art Series” – The Art of the Czars
  43. “The Great Art Series” – The French Impressionists
  44. “The Great Art Series” – Rembrandt
  45. The Number Factory
  46. The Smithsonian Presents – The Riches of Coins
  47. The Smithsonian Presents – Stamps
  48. The World of Number – Disc 1
  49. The World of Number – Disc 2
  50. The World of Number – Disc 3
  51. The World of Number – Disc 4
  52. Tim & Bear® at the Hospital
  53. Tim & Bear® at the Airport
  54. Tim & Bear® at the Harbour
  55. Tim & Bear® at the Movies
  56. Treasures of the Smithsonian

Seventy7 and Preserve CD-i project

Seventy7 became in a few months (since September 2020) an “incontournable” name of the CD-i scene.
He is a preservationist, witch means he is searching to get the original discs, and with a process using a specific software and hardware, gets the original data from each titles like official realize date, version, ring codes and also an image (ISO or BIN/CUE files).
As the Philips CD-i wasn’t properly preserved, he decided jump into this quest and started this quest… yes… a quest!

We all know the difficulty to complete a collection for this system as it was used for so many professional purpose beside the usual simple consumer, not counting the huge regional variants.

Still, with the growing interactive community and interest into this infamous system, many unknown or very rare titles started appearing from nowhere. Thanks to many of those people Seventy7 is slowly reaching his goal with 960 titles dumped so far.
The most famous pair is without any questions Blazers and Seventy7. In fact, Blazers has a gift to find titles from places nobody would think it could be possible… and Seventy7 is a pure machine when the subject is dumping and scanning… I named this pair, the Dream Team, you will find there names on many titles credits.
But there is more, UnlockerPT, he is a monster, eating more than 60 titles in just one week-end! I can easily confirm that as he is my neighbor here in Portugal (Grande Maluco! És o Maior!).
Seventy7 named a few on his dedicated blog:

Thanks to Blazers, KailoKrya, Landcross, retaliator, r******d, UnlockerPT, omegalfa, Jackal, Maddog, Fireball, Wiggy, Billy and many others for all your hard work!

All the dumps are available at Redump.org but now, all the romset are available on archive.org, thanks to him!

It is now my turn, thank you them, yes, thank you Seventy7, thank you Blazers, thank you UnlockerPT, thank you KailoKrya, thank you retaliator, thank you r******d, thank you Jackal, thank you Maddog, thank you Fireball, Thank you Wiggy, thank you Billy, thank you all!
Keep up the good work!


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Shikotei’s The Apprentice Free PC version!

Shikotei, our website member, have just completed a completely insane project!
9 years ago he got this crazy idea to convert a CD-i game into a Windows game… Yes… 9 years of intensive work!
The game selected was The Apprentice of course! This game is for sure one of the best you can find on CD-i and maybe one of the best platform game of the 90’s!

CONGRATULATIONS Shokitei for this amazing work!
You are crazy and we need more crazy guys like you!

Shikotei:

After having started almost 9 years ago in Excel, porting this to PHP, porting that once again to Director in Lingo, and finally porting everything to Unity in C# this game has come a long way!

The Apprentice remade for PC is the project of just me whose idea of a challenge is programming everything from scratch. No black boxes, no bug-free engines, no such thing of any kind. Stupid? Perhaps.. but it got me knowledge beyond what I thought I needed to make a game! Knowledge that should enable me to make another one if I ever finish this one.

My version of The Apprentice requires an ISO of the original CD-i disc to run. It is needed because all the sprites, backgrounds, music, sound effects, and level layouts are stored there. None of them are aboard the game itself because that would be a copyright infringement. It is my way of trying to protect myself against those who hold the rights to the Apprentice.

Every asset I extract from the IMG file is kept in memory and so nothing is actually stored on the hard drive.

Download the PC version game right here!

For more information about how to play it and also other Shikotei projects, please visit his website at www.shikotei.com!

A forum topic has been created so Shikotei can answer your questions!