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

[motrucker]

On an A500 the only way to accomplish installing a CD ROM drive is either with an A570 (this limits you to 2.0OS) or use something like a GVP hard drive sidecar and use the CD-ROM drive from that with a SCSI drive.
Parallel port devices were never made for the Amiga (to slow with the 68000 for one thing), and no drivers (again due mostly to speed problems).

[motrucker]

Personally I would go the GVP side car route. If you use Asimware's file system for the CD, it has excellent CDTV emulation. Plus you can add more RAM.
Working A570s can be hard to find these days.

[motrucker]

That's the most expensive A500 Plus I have seen used. Oh well, it's cheaper than it was new....

[motrucker]

You all are right about prices. This thread got me wanting an external CD ROM for my A2000, and the prices floored me. I found one HP CD Writer Plus that came without a PSU but I bit. Figured I could find one the would work in my collection. No such luck, and I can't find a PSU anywhere. Back to the drawing board on this one. I hate to yank the drive out and make an internal. Guess I'll keep looking.....