Do I need special hardware to make a CD-i title?
In therory: no. If you have the approriate CD-i authoring software that runs on a PC (like the Presentation CD package that can be downloaded from the PC/Windows downloads page at this website, or Philips’ ShowBuilder package for Windows), you can produce a CD-i title entirely without any additional hardware besides your PC. Bear in mind however, that the results from these authoring tools are very linear and without much interactive features. Even if you had a tool that provides you a way of creating a more complex CD-i title on a PC, you still wouldn’t be able to test the behaviour of it on a CD-i player, since CD-i cannot be “emulated” in any way on a PC. A one-off CD-R would need to be pressed at the various development stages, which would be very inconvenient. All CD-i titles that you see around are created with either low level authoring tools on a PC, Macinthosh, Sun or OS-9 system which was connected to a CD-i development player and emulator, or entirely on a CD-i development p
