External CD-ROM for the Amiga 500....

[mrknight]

Parallel port CD-ROMs do exist. I remember it was very common to use parallel port for external devices in the 90's.

[mrknight]

External CD-ROM with parallel port connection do exist. I remember parallel port was very common for devices in the 90's.

[mrknight]

I've done some extensive research on this, and the simple answer is that the Amiga's parallel port (on the 1000 and 500) don't support enough control signals to be able to run 95% of the parallel to SCSI adapters that were designed for PCs.

Oh, so that means A1000/A500 don't use a standard parallel port? That's a shame since I was thinking of getting a parallel port CD-ROM.

I thought that if it was connector compatible all that would be needed would be a device driver.