He was a coder for more that 15 years in the game industry. Pete Dabbs worked on the CD-i conversion of Rise™ of the Robots. Some of them are abandoned by their creator, others are still under development. Here you will find the different ways to emulate a CD-i title using a software, no boards (this is a future subject).

Its succeeded with the development of a Nubus CD-i board for Macintosh, an ISA & PCI boards for Sun and Windows computers.

Back to the early days of the interactive system development, Philips tried many ways to emulate CD-i titles to make it easier to develop new titles. In our case, play a CD-i title without the need of any dedicated player. Emulation is the term used when you want to make something work from a specific system, using something that is not the original platform.