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I had a summer job at 3T productions in ~1992, who did Cluedo for CD-i; while I spent my time on a CD-XA project on a PC, dev for the CD-i wasn't easy; given
by trebligdivad 8y ago
I had a summer job at 3T productions in ~1992, who did Cluedo for CD-i; while I spent my time on a CD-XA project on a PC, dev for the CD-i wasn't easy; given video compression was so early, and the video-decompressor module was optional, it was difficult to do any useful video on CD-i, and the specified seek time on the CD was ages. Remember that doing CD dev for anything in 1992 was hard - CD writers were >£10k (and blanks ~£10+ each) with the CD writer connected via phono to a CD-i dev machine wired onto a Sun workstation. And that 600MB+ hard drive you needed to store the image was full-height 5.25" (and I hate to think the cost).
- bsenftner 8y agoThose old Sun workstations had re-purposed grey-scale newspaper publishing screens. I remember being hooked on having two full newspaper page sized windows side by side for my CD-I development. Not until retina displays did I have that again, and it was very welcome.