The Interactive Engineer

On this page, you will find several issues of the The Interactive Engineer newsletter that was published by Philips Media and PIMC, mainly to assist CD-i software developers. The issues are either in HTML format or in Portable Document Format, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view or print the latter.

Please note that none of the addresses, phone numbers and other contact information listed in these issues is valid anymore. If you have any questions about these newsletters, you may contact me. Also, please contact me if you own additional copies of The Interactive Engineer either in digital form or in hard copy.

The Volume 4 issues were manually converted to HTML based on text-only versions that were once obtained from the PIMC mailserver.



Volume 4, No. 1, 1995
  • CD-i Developers meet in Düsseldorf
  • Using the serial port of a CD-i player
  • PIMC Support
  • Limitations to Media Mogul Plugins
  • Programming with Balboa the MS Windows way
  • 605 TCP/IP Software Configuration
  • System Error reset with Media Mogul
  • Griffin Tools
  • Recent Product Releases
  • New Media Mogul Features
  • CD-i Training Courses
  • About Interactive Engineer
  • Training Courses Schedule
  • How to connect to Email

    Volume 4, No. 2, 1995
  • Sticky Modules
  • Can I make my own Media Mogul Plugins?
  • Promote your own tools
  • Support contractors section
  • Making a CD-i Ready using MediaMogul
  • Compatibility between Hard Disk and Syquest
  • CD-i Training courses
  • NIRD Services
  • Optimage BBS

    Volume 4, No. 3, 1995
  • Technical Notes: Introduction
  • Technical Notes Catalog

    Volume 4, No. 4, 1995
  • Displaying 16:9 aspect ratio
  • Media Mogul Keypads
  • CD-i Keyboard example code
  • Electronic CD-i catalogue
  • CD-i Training courses
  • A launcher program

    Volume 4, No. 5, 1995
  • How to Load and Save Media Mogul Variables to a file
  • Quick RL7 Buttons
  • PIMC mailserver
  • How to connect to Email
  • Asset, the new CD-i developers newsletter
  • CD-i Training Courses
  • Something to tell to the CD-i community?
  • CD-i Training Courses Planning until end '95
  • New Media Mogul 2.2

    Volume 4, No. 6, 1995
  • New: Interactive Express
  • How to connect to Email
  • Final Production Delivery specification
  • CD-I Player Types
  • Sector Aligning
  • CDedit Bug
  • CD-i Training Courses
  • CD-i Training Courses Planning until end '95
  • Using a Fontcatcher Font in Balboa
  • Index 1995

    Volume 5, No. 3, March/July 1996
  • Editorial
  • Encoding and production
  • Training
  • MediaMogul and Script2Disc
  • MediaMogul plugins
  • Access to the Line Control Tables
  • Authoring board versus playback board
  • Using soundmaps in Balboa
  • Serial Connections

    Volume 5, No. 4, July/August 1996
  • Editorial
  • RS232 sample code
  • Direct Line Control Table access
  • More on Balboa and soundmaps
  • CD-i Internet toolkit
  • UltraC and fpu crashes

    Volume 5, No. 5, September/October 1996
  • Editorial
  • Building VCD compliant disc
  • CD-i player types
  • Which DV cartridge is in a 605?
  • DV with concatenated video streams crashes
  • The CSD file and DV cartridges

    Volume 5, No. 6, November/December 1996
  • Editorial
  • MediaMogul click
  • Oops
  • OS-9 command shell and emulation
  • Internet & CD-i
  • Determining the real IP address of the 605 player
  • DV plane shift - 605 IMPEG DVC
  • 605 CD-i ethernet self check
  • Index volume 5 1996
  • Training

    Volume 6, No. 2, January/February 1997
  • Editorial
  • Authoring DVD
  • Facts & figures
  • Faster is better

    Volume 6, No. 3, September 1997
  • Editorial
  • Loading modules
  • The Rise International lightpen
  • Introducing the CDI 490
  • The TCM keydisc
  • Starting MediaMogul without CD

    Volume 7, No. 1, August 1998
  • Editorial
  • New CD-i utilties
  • Imation drive
  • MPEG audio driver
  • YAY2
  • Mtools for OS-9
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