Alice in Wonderland (CD-i)

The CD-i Alice in Wonderland is a remake of Spinnaker's 1985 Commodore 64/Apple II game of the same name.

Development Software#

The US and European versions contain the file stripreel, which has the data for a piece of Spinnaker-authored CD-i imaging software called Fullreel. It's unknown what operating system Fullreel was made for, or whether it can still be run. This file is absent from the translated French and Dutch versions.

Inside stripreel are the following strings:

Fullreel by Spinnaker Software -- V2.0 (Form 2 Data)

showreel <rtf_pathname>
showreel: Trouble allocating memory. Bye!

input file == %s

showreel: Trouble opening audio path. Bye!
showreel: Trouble creating PCB. Bye!
showreel: Trouble creating PCLs. Bye!
showreel: Trouble creating PCLs. Bye!
showreel: Trouble creating PCLs. Bye!
showreel: Trouble opening %s. Bye!
showreel: Can not play this RTF.

NOT REEL TYPE
Can't activate screen
LINE_EVENT
least_wait_count == %d

Can't create the Plane A Drawmap
Can't create the Plane A Drawmap
Can't create the Plane A Drawmap
Can't set cluts
Ask Medge

dm_close() on 
dm_on failed!
dm_close() on
dm_off failed!
dm_close on
dm_console failed!

couldn't srqcmem the ins
ugh!!

dies in pc10
dies in pc11
dies in pc11
dies in buf0
dies in buf2
dies in buf1
dies in pc1
dies in buf

showreel: Signal %d received.

PCL_Ctrl........... %X
PCL_Smode........... %X
PCL_Type........... %X
PCL_Sig............ %X
PCL_Nxt............ %X
PCL_Buf............ %X
PCL_BufSz............ %X
PCL_Err............ %X
PCL_Cnt............ %X

"Medge" is listed in the credits of every Spinnaker CD-i title as the creator of their imaging software, with extra credits in both Paint School titles for programming and design. In an interview on [https://www.theworldofcdi.com/cd-i_encyclopedia/laser-lords-interview/#:~:text=KEITH%3A-,Michael%20Edge,-joined%20about%20the WorldOfCdi], it's explained that "Medge", is actually Michael Edge, who later went on to found Ledge Multimedia.

Can't get video device
Can't get display devname, errno = 0x%x
Can't get display parameter, errno = 0x%x
Can't reset compatibility mode

ERROR: 0x%x, %s
ERROR: 0x%x, %s

Can't make horizontal line

File is not an image file
Can't get space for Image data
Can't read image data
Can't do iff_close
Can't do close on iff file
Can't get space for header and data struct
No space for Iff Image header
Can't read the Image header

Error: %x, File %s not found
Error: %x, File %s is not an IFF file
Error: %x, Can't read next form in %s

File is not an audio file
Can't get space for audio data
Can't read image data
Can't do iff_close
Cannot close iff file
Can't get space for header and data struct
No space for Iff audio header
Can't read the audio header

Can't get video device
Can't open the video device
Bad number of cluts input
Invalid starting clut number
Can't allocate buffer for FCT instructions

COMM
APCM
AESD
ANNO
AUTH
APPL
MIDI
INST
COMT
MARK
SSND
NAME

IMAG
IHDR
IPAR
PLTE
YUVS
USER
IDAT

PLTE
IHDR
IDAT
IPAR
YUVS
USER

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