A long time back, in discussion boards far far away, there were hints and rumors that the TG16 was compatible with scsi cdroms(that the cdrom commands worked for the scsi interface). Been forever, and I never learned the outcome. Does anyone have the pinout, or know of anyone who has a 3rd party CD-rom hooked up? The cd-roms for sale all are 2x what a PCE/TG16 cost, and the ones that are cheap are busted. Any info is appreciated Google has not been my friend on this issue...
Found this on wikipedia, not sure it is of any help? NEC developed a prototype adaptor that connected a PC through the HuCard slot, allowing the PC to control the PC Engine's CD ROM as it would any normal SCSI drive. Due to falling CD drive prices and the increasing undesirability of a single-speed SCSI drive, it was never released. It was however previewed in NEC's official US TurboDuo magazine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16 And this on pcenginefx.com: http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=2663.0; To my knowledge, pce CDROM drive were SCSI(ish) drives?
Yes, CDROM use SCSI 1 protocol. theoretically speaking it's posssible to use any SCSI CDROM with some adjustement like external power. Some japanese PC has a slot to plug a PC-Engine CD-ROM². This slot use SCSI to.
It would be way cheaper to use joe-nobody CD-ROM than a real NEC PC-Engine CD-ROM. Is there more diffrences between CD-ROMs outside of the connector? Ie. could you just get an Apple or any external SCSI 1 CD-ROM to work? (Probably not, but I figured I'd ask anyways).
