I2m card: CD-i to PC

Post by **Bas** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:26 pm

on ebay

great thing, it makes me wonder.... how does it work? does it have a Bios like normal cd-i players? Does anyone have this card?

Erronous · Post by **Erronous** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:16 pm

It's a CD-i system on a PCI card. Software and drivers are loaded from the PCI host, including the bios. It's plays CD-i discs directly from the host cd-rom drive, from the hard drive (I think even in windows file system) and from ISO's. I have one such card, it can be unstable at some times (the overlay feature IIRC), but otherwise it works great. At this price I wouldn't hesitate in buying one

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cdifan · Post by **cdifan** » Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:29 pm

I think the cards themselves do not have any on-board ROM; the Windows driver software for it (several versions are available from ICDIA) seems to include all the CD-RTOS modules normally included in a CD-i system ROM (a.k.a. BIOS).

I plan to make it working with CD-i Emulator at some point...

Several years ago I've played with this card, but it was notoriously difficult to get working and I no longer have access to it.

Post by **Devin** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:18 am

I have an early ISA version CD-i board and probably the driver software floppy as well which I need to dig up for you CD-i Fan!!