It did not integrate at all with the normal operating system running on the PC. A special version was made that allowed for the shared usage of a harddrive by the CD-i system and the computer, so this one was ideal for CD-i developers. ![]() They could for example create assets (audio and video) using their PC tools, and then integrate it into a CD-i application using for example MediaMogul in CD-i mode. The PC/CD-i board was very rare, only a very small quantity of these boards were manufactured. It was more expensive than a stand-alone CD-i player.ĩ.4 Can I access the contents of a CD-i disc on my PC?Ī CD-i disc is based on a different file system than the ones used for PC systems. Iin personal computing the ISO-9660 format and its Joliet (Windows) and HFS (Mac) variants are the most well known and widely used systems, CD-i discs use the file system format that is based on CD-i's operating systems OS-9. The OS-9 file system allows for file names up to 28 characters in length, for the mixed usage of upper and lowercase letters and it provides options to indicate OS-9's Unix-style execution or read permission parameters.īecause of this different file system, the files on a CD-i disc can not be accessed in a regular way on a PC equipped with a CD-ROM drive. ![]() ![]() ![]() This was not a problem, since a CD-i program could after all not be used on a PC due to its different operating system, CPU and audio and video codecs.
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