I have a guy who wants me to replace the failing EL backlight on his synthesizer with an OLED display.
So it would pretty much be a drop in replacement, except for the fact the microprocessor writes commands to the 44780 compatible display controller in two writes of 8, rather than one write of 16. Apparently someone hacked the firmware to get around this:
I'm wondering if there is any solution that would not involve a firmware hack. Feels like a lot of work.