CD-I Emulator 0.53 beta 9 17/05/25

CD-i Emulator, version 0.5.3-beta9 for Windows

This version has a built-in 2026/07/01 date limit and will not be functional after that date.

This is a small feature release for version 0.5.3, which is now in maintenance mode as all development has shifted to version 0.6.0. These are the user-visible new features:

• A "skip system code" option has been added to the debugger trace command "t".
• The "unknown" DCP instruction $70 has been renamed from "unk" to "border $x".
• The displayed parameter order of some DCP instructions has been changed.
• The debugger window now display progressive/interlaced with the video mode.
• GitHub issue cdifan/cdiemu#15 Unable to open stb file in format module.***.stb was fixed.
• Video memory dumps can now be saved by selecting Emulate | Dump, pressing its keyboard shortcut Ctrl-F12 or using the debugger command "ex dump".

Video memory dumps can be used with the (to be released) CD-i Conversion program cdiconv and source code release.

This beta version is essentially a limited edition, unless you have already activated an unlimited edition on your machine or you're using a Philips Mono-I player system ROM. The latter exception allows for full compability tests against the MESS/MAME CD-i driver.  

CD-i Emulator, version 0.5.3-beta8 for Windows

This is a small bugfix release and probably the last beta release for version 0.5.3, which is now in maintenance mode as all development has shifted to version 0.6.0. These are the user-visible new features:

• A new xxx A new debugger command "ewk" has been added to kill watch addresses.
• The built-in expiration date has been updated to 2026/01/01.
• It is possible to enable the SLAVE mute/unmute commands issued by the CDIC drivers of the JNMS, Mini-MMC, Maxi-MMC and Mono-I player generations. This will cause "no audio" issues is various titles, esp. Tetris and Lemmings. Enable this by adding the "muteaudio" keyword to the cdic.dev lines in the various *.brd files or set the variable directly with the -set cdic.muteaudio command line option.

No other changes have been made. Saving the contents of the CD-i NVRAM to a file is still supported.

CD-i Emulator, version 0.5.3-beta7 for Windows

This version has a built-in 2025/01/01 date limit and will not be functional after that date.

This is a small bugfix release and probably the last beta release for version 0.5.3, which is now in maintenance mode as all development has shifted to version 0.6.0. These are the user-visible new features:

• A new debugger command "ewk" has been added to kill watch addresses.
• Additional help lines explaining parameters have been added for some debugger commands.
• VDSC mode bit sampling timing has been changed to avoid some title issues.
• Pixel-based transparency processing has been improved to fix some regression issues.

This beta version is essentially a limited edition, unless you have already activated an unlimited edition on your machine or you're using a Philips Mono-I player system ROM. The latter exception allows for full compability tests against the MESS/MAME CD-i driver.

CD-i Emulator, version 0.5.3-beta6 for Windows

This version has a built-in 2024/01/01 date limit and will not be functional after that date.

This is a public bugfix release, but it is hugely out of date with the current development version 0.6.0. The only reason for this release is to get a working version available again. These are the user-visible new features:

• Emulation speed throttling has been fixed for modern machines.
• The contents of the CD-i NVRAM (non-volatile memory) can now be saved to a file.
• All web links now use the secure HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP.

CD-i Emulator, version 0.5.3-beta5 for Windows

This version is no longer functional because of a built-in 2020/01/01 date limit and will immediately display a "You have exceeded the evaluation time limit" message after starting emulation.

This was a non-public bugfix release, mainly intented for compatibility testing. These are the user-visible new features:

• CD-i 180 pointing device emulation has been fixed with a temp hack.
• The RGB555 video mode is now correctly decoded.
• A small number of minor bugs have been fixed.

CD-i Emulator, version 0.5.3-beta4 for Windows

This version is no longer functional because of a built-in 2019/01/01 date limit and will immediately display a "You have exceeded the evaluation time limit" message after starting emulation.

This was a bugfix release. These are the user-visible new features:

• CD-i 180 emulation is now supported, although the pointing device does not work.
• A faster and more flexible video combiner has been implemented; as a result there may be some new video emulation bugs.
• A small number of minor bugs have been fixed.

CD-i Emulator, version 0.5.3-beta3 for Windows

This version is no longer functional because of a built-in 2012/01/01 date limit and will immediately display a "You have exceeded the evaluation time limit" message after starting emulation.

This was a bugfix release. It fixes the problem where the 0.5.3-beta2 version displays a "You have exceeded the evaluation time limit" message for newer 0.5.2 activations. There are two user-visible new features:

• Snapshot pictures can now be saved by selecting Emulate | Snapshot or pressing its shortcut key F12. The snapshot picture will be written to a subdirectory of the snap directory.
• Support for SCSI disks and tapes has been added (only for CD-i 60x).