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Gameboy film is designed for passive matrix LCDs, so it won’t work here. I don’t know if these monochrome panels use anything special or not, but I’d try standard TFT film first.

ditto to herd - you’ll need to get a CP2112 or similar device to communicate to the battery over SMBus. Not a difficult process once you have the hardware, and it isn’t expensive. If you need the software required to talk with the battery then you can DM me.

Oh good lord, this is some of the most brittle plastic I’ve seen. My other three 500 series batteries were all a fight to get open. The plastics were still very pliable. This thing? Totally different story. This is the only of the three with these purple cells inside - it’s labeled EMM-P so I’m...

The Q700 is just a lot more limited compared to the 950 in terms of expansion.

BMS likely requires reprogramming.

My serious answer would be: - SE/30 - IIfx - Quadra 950 (if you can fix it, otherwise keep the 800) - PowerBook 540c - Power Macintosh 8500 Just looking at the list, the 5 above seem to be the most powerful/versatile. And you've gotta have at least one laptop around, and in the end the 280c...

The Duo 280c (and minidock) because I want it ;) (kidding)

And the spam posts below is why this forum needs active moderation.

For shame.

Has anyone dumped the PenLite hard disk image? I remember hearing a couple years ago that none of the few PenLite owners were interested in backing that up publicly. If they're hoarding that, it doesn't surprise me that they're hoarding the schematics too. I doubt Colin got the schematics...

I think by the time they were launching the Pismo, having a G3 wasn't much to brag about anymore. They had just launched the Power Mac G4 a year earlier, and probably didn't want to market the Pismo under a name that sounded last-gen.

So glad to hear you've got it running! I can't offer any advice on the bluescsi but I'm sure someone else here can. Great work. Let me know what the cap values on the trackball are and I'll add them to my site.

Good luck!