dr.zeissler wrote on 2026-01-28, 21:03:

Without reading the whole thread I guess I can't play those MPEG games if my machine has no Realmagic but a Matrox-Mystique with rainbow runner MPEG module?

Unfortunately, you can’t. But “Silent Steel” should run on any MPEG card! And of course many of those games could be run in DOSBox on a modern PC.

Thx, I will have a look for such a realmagic card.

Hammer wrote on 2023-01-15, 19:17:

Not only do I have it - I have 2 copies. One jewel case, and one sealed box that I paid way too much for. I will dump it for sure, but I am constantly dumping things and it takes me time to get these things done. I dumped Conspiracy MPEG and RTZ MPEG originally, but things take me time.

It would still be nice to dump it! At least to compare with the newly found beta-version. I take it, the sealed box is the actual retail release?

Uka wrote on 2026-01-27, 14:35:

Indeed, that is a great find! And there is an interesting story behind it: the beta-version was found by Justin Escobedo in a th […]
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Indeed, that is a great find! And there is an interesting story behind it: the beta-version was found by Justin Escobedo in a thrift store in 2023. It made its way to The World of CD-i and then to Hidden Palace.
https://www.theworldofcdi.com/return-to-cyber … y-beta-version/

The truth is that it is a game for Windows 3.1, not DOS. So it won't work in DOSBox that does not support DMA yet.

I have recorded a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwaBuUzMdhE
I am bad at such QTE games though 😀 I could never finish "Escape from CyberCity" either. So it is just a "Tour" and a couple of attempts at the very beginning...
The list of RM games is updated as well!

its posible to share via pm ? thanks

Hello everyone, I've just received a Realmagic Lite card and I've installed in my 486 build and I've come across this interesting thread.

I have a couple of questions in hope others have come across this.

1. Has anyone tried using ISO images in physical 486 machines using CD Emulation (SHSUCDHD and SHSUCDX) for RM games?
   Or are you burning CDs? Just asking before I go down the CDR route.
2. I have paired it with an ATI Mach32 VLB VGA and I am experiencing a strange behaviour that DOS will boot up in Black & White, when passthrough the RM card (internal feature connect0r).
   When I run Windows 3.11 it will change to color. Also when I play MPEG sample files, the DOS UI is still BW but the video plays in color.
3. The Windows media player has a "CDI" option. Is this intended to play CDI movies or for CDI games too?
   I remember when RM came out, I did watch TopGun (CDI version) and the requirements was that it had to be paired with a Sony CDU33A but I don't recall if that was a speed requirement (doublespeed) or there an actual hardware requirement.
   Has anyone tried playing CDI games with the RM and what software have you used to do this?

maikolator wrote on 2026-03-15, 11:14:

Hello everyone, I've just received a Realmagic Lite card and I've installed in my 486 build and I've come across this interestin […]
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Hello everyone, I've just received a Realmagic Lite card and I've installed in my 486 build and I've come across this interesting thread.

I have a couple of questions in hope others have come across this.

1. Has anyone tried using ISO images in physical 486 machines using CD Emulation (SHSUCDHD and SHSUCDX) for RM games?
   Or are you burning CDs? Just asking before I go down the CDR route.
2. I have paired it with an ATI Mach32 VLB VGA and I am experiencing a strange behaviour that DOS will boot up in Black & White, when passthrough the RM card (internal feature connect0r).
   When I run Windows 3.11 it will change to color. Also when I play MPEG sample files, the DOS UI is still BW but the video plays in color.
3. The Windows media player has a "CDI" option. Is this intended to play CDI movies or for CDI games too?
   I remember when RM came out, I did watch TopGun (CDI version) and the requirements was that it had to be paired with a Sony CDU33A but I don't recall if that was a speed requirement (doublespeed) or there an actual hardware requirement.
   Has anyone tried playing CDI games with the RM and what software have you used to do this?

1 - I burn CDs to use; I have a 386dx40MHz.

2 - I had some similar problems, but when I switched to a SyncMaster 3, the resolution and color issues with the RM were resolved.

3 - I still need to try that; it would be great if it worked with CD-ROMs.

1 - I have not tried it either.
2 - REALmagic is very sensitive when it comes to video cards. You have to check the list of those it officially supports...
3 - Definitely not! Only CD-i movies. CD-i games require Philips SCC68070 processor, etc.
Philips did release a special card for that, but - I think nobody has ever seen one 😀
download/file.php?mode=view&id=239285

For some reason, my post keeps getting removed.
Has anyone here found disc 2 of Man Enough for RealMagic they could share please?

Hello everyone!

I am happy to report back that I have been able to play CDI movies on my Realmagic card thus confirming my childhood memory and that I do not yet suffer from memory loss!
Posting this here, hope it's useful to someone.

After coming across the "VGA and CD-ROM Compatibility Report" that states
"the drive has to be XA, Mode 2, Form 2 capable." and double-checking my drives I decided to test anyway just in-case.

I came across issues that I would not think possible which took me down to the path of wondering if the CDR media or the CDRW drive, Software, Writing speed was the issue and so forth. So after 10+ tries with Nero, CDRWIN (on Windows98) and IMGBurn I finally narrowed it down to hardware.
It turned out that for my specific drive (TEAC CD-W524E) I had to use the TEAC DOS driver. None of the other generic drivers worked (VIDE.SYS or OAKCDROM) would work with CDI although they would work fine with reading CDROMS.
This took me down the path with experimenting with more CDROM drives from my collection and narrowed it down to a few that work and few that don't.

Drives I tested : TEAC CD-W524E
It would not work with VIDE.SYS or OAKCDROM. I finally got it to work with the TEAC DOS driver which was very interesting

SONY DD01621 - Works
SONY CRX140E - Works
Goldstar CRD-8241B(CP1) - Works
Delta OIP-CD5200A/B - Works
LG CED-8120B - Doesn't work. Does not recognize the CDI movie

I tried both Hunt for Red October (8111003 (United Kingdom)) & Topgun (Disk number 8111001 (United Kingdom))

Hardware :

• ORCHID TECHNOLOGY KELVIN 64-VLB
• Realmagic Lite (53-000362) (Connected with internal VESA Feature connector)
• Labway A151-A00 Soundcard (I soldered a Iine-out header on the Realmagic and routed the audio internally) to the Yamaha

And lastly, phone shots of playing TopGun on a 486 with Realmagic card on Windows 3.1 Media Player. Here's Maverick keeping up foreign relations!