I happen to own 2 specimen of the Philips NMS 0210 CD-ROM interface.
Today in the Philips Museum we tried to test them with the CDR-X1000, the Tele Atlas software I have and the Tele Atlas CD-ROM. And a SCSI cable. Unfortunately it didn't work. Nothing happened on the CD-ROM player. The only effect we could see is that the CD-ROM player would stop opening or closing if we reset the MSX whilst it was doing that, but only with the NMS 0210 that has the white label. With the other one nothing happened at all.
So, the question is... what went wrong? At least the owner of the CDR-X1000 is going to see if the unit needs recapping (it never spins up...)
Help we need:
- who owns another CDR-X1000, so we can try with another unit?
- who can help to reverse engineer the software?
- who can help to reverse engineer the interface cartridge, so it could possibly be recreated, making at least one component less rare... to this end I made an album on msx.pics with photos I took from my two interfaces: https://msx.pics/album/juXD The one with the label is the one with the light PCB and the black connector and the one without label is the one with the dark PCB and the blue connector. So, can someone devise a schematic from these photos? Can someone see whether something is wrong with these units?
The software has a demo mode (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv9lIJXOu1U ) and if you press F1 or CTRL-STOP it seems to start the 'real' software. But that just shows "TELE ATLAS" and then hangs up.
Always great to meet a well known MSXer...!) 
