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George- put $5 on it for a new HDD. Just do it.

EDIT: if you are worried about slowdown, just try it out and see. No harm in that, you can reformat if you hate it.

Hmm, well, if you must keep the lombard you must. And I will concur, the keyboards on there are fairly good as laptops go, though I have my personal favorite for a typewriter computer:

I would suggest going with Debian if you can swing getting a brand new HDD for the Lombard. If you're looking for parts I can quite possibly hook you up with some stuff or people who do have it. For an older PPC I would not suggest 10.1 or higher, it's just too painfully slow, though I have not tried it on a Lombard of course. So I would say 9.whatever if you can't do Debian. However, I will also suggest something else for you: ask the helpful fellows over at the 68kMLA forums. There are a ton of PPC nuts there who can give you ideas for what to do about OS9/10 if you decide not to get into Debian, or who would sell you a drive.

EDIT: forgot the link http://68kmla.net/

If you want reliability and can deal with the obsolete, may I suggest getting a Tandy Model 102. Perhaps the most durable, reliable, and stylish laptop ever to grace the market IMO. Full travel, full size keys, an easy to read (when there is ambient light) 40x8 character LCD display, 40 hours of battery life from a set of AA batteries, and it's 100% solid state. No moving parts, no need to bother with "saving" documents, if it's in RAM it's already saved. Comes with industry standard Microsoft Basic, a text editor, a spreadsheet program, contact list, and a 300 baud modem with optional acoustical couplers for a go-anywhere machine. If you need massive amounts of RAM, no problem, you can upgrade to as much as 32 kilobytes of it. You can choose software from dozens of titles. You can hook up to an optional dot matrix printer for making near letter quality hard copies of your work, and if you need the ultimate in high density data backup, you can add an external floppy drive which also runs on batteries for convenient portability.

I'm serious about this. If you need something small and portable and durable for taking notes in class, writing papers, and playing with Basic, this is it. You can hook this up via serial to a "modern" computer to move your documents around, and this thing is built like a tank. I have dropped mine down 3 flights of stairs, set nearly 100 lbs on top of it by accident, spilled liquids on it, and subjected it to temps of -30 degrees F. And it still runs like a champ. Also has my favorite keyboard ever attached to a laptop. It also makes and excellent portable serial terminal, AND wows the chicks.

Laser Blast. I got soo good at that game. I once played for literally 5 hours before getting owned.
Air Sea Battle is where it's at for multiplayer, as well as Warlords.

Also, if you liked Haunted House you should also play Adventure.

I'll need to dig through my 70+ Atari 2600 games to see which ones I can remember as being good.

Asteroids and HERO are also very good. River Raid. Basically anything by Activision is gonna be good. If you want a good laugh play Freeway. Frogger.

Choplifter and Towering Inferno are also good.

I suspect this will work with clones as well, though I don't have the ability to test that myself. Oh, and as for how the cable hooks up, it'll have to be adapted to the clone console if it doesn't use standard NES plugs or the standard Famicom EXT port (many don't). The newest bootloader is fairly flexible for timings and such, so clones ought to work. Keep in mind though, I haven't tested this. If any of the beta users have NOAC or other clone devices I'll be sure and have them report back to me on how that works out. (by the way, the betas don't have their hardware quite yet)

Yeah, I'm pumped to, especially when I see the prototypes, and now the betas coming together so nicely. I got a test cable all hacked up for the Famicom and nearly ready to test. I overcame the stupidly-shaped famicom expansion port by taking a normal DB-15 connector with a molded-on housing and clamping it in a vice, then cutting away the unneeded parts with a brand new straight razor blade and a hammer. Worked like a charm. Once the Famicom support is tested and integrated into the unified bootloader then I can ship the beta out! Huzzah!

OH, one other thing about the Famicom cables and hacking them up with razor blades and such- I will not need to do this when I finally hit production for the final versions, this was just a quick and dirty way of getting something to test the code with until I can order proper cables for production.

hmmmmm. Lemme download vegaplay and mess with it for myself and see what I can come up with. I suspect it's just a problem of something not being in quite the right spot. Possibly geo.chr.

EDIT: Hmm, seems possible that geo.chr is possibly not in the root folder anymore, or you renamed it?