Hi guys, I think this could possibly count as the longest of long shots, but I figure it's at least worth a go :) About a month ago, I picked up a Polaroid HR-6000 film recorder. This is one of their "Digital Palette" series film recorders (of which the CI-3000, CI-5000, HR-6000SE and ProPalette 7000 and ProPalette 8000 are also members). The machine works fine, as long as you run it on a Windows XP machine. Even then, the software is finicky and prone to crashing out in strange and mysterious ways. Being Windows, a reboot is usually required to fix things. I'd like to see it working on one of my Linux boxen :) I've managed to reverse engineer the Polaroid driver to the point where I have a reasonably complete list of the basic SCSI commands and sequencing required to get something output. However there are several things I haven't managed to figure out - the huge stack of magic numbers, for instance. What I'm after (the Holy Grail so to speak) are either the header files or the full source code for the Polaroid Interface Toolkit. This was an SDK Polaroid used to give out free to developers back-in-the-day, and nearly all the software I've seen was derived from it. A copy of this and/or its accompanying documentation would likely answer the last few of my questions about the command set and hardware. I'm also interested in documentation and software for the Palette and Digital Palette series - especially but not limited to: - Parallel Port Interface Specification Manual (probably useless, but may contain info useful for figuring out more of the SCSI command data blocks) - Digital Palette Product Specification Manual - SCSI Parallel Interface Specification Manual - the "Digital Palette Test Software" disk (GENTEST and DP2DIAG), Polaroid part number / tool number 13437 For what it's worth, I also know software existed for the following platforms: - DOS (Polaroid Palette for DOS) - Windows 3.1 (Zenographics SuperPrint for Polaroid Palette) - Windows 95/98/XP (Graphx RasterPlus 95, now sold by Photogize for a rather silly amount of money) - Mac Classic (Polaroid Palette Export for Macintosh) - Amiga (ASDG Art Department Professional) - NeXT (eXTRASlide -- http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdPartySoftware/In… ) - Atari ST (can't find any evidence of this beyond Polaroid's marketing materials) Whether copies of any of this software (besides RasterPlus) still exist is another matter entirely... If you've got any of the stuff above (or anything else which could be useful) please either reply here or send me an email. Thanks again, -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/