I had the same awesome/awful reaction mix to your hack as did our resident Snarkasaur, fab hack nonetheless. I'm leaning more to the awesome side as well now that it's grown on me a bit.

That 1/3 scale hack is very cool, if a bit too small to have the SD card plug into the FDD slot. In my estimation, that feature would have been well worth upping the hack to 1/2 scale, given availability of a suitable LCD.