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Softcard: DEVSEL instead of IOSEL possible?
- Subject: Softcard: DEVSEL instead of IOSEL possible?
- From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:07:19 +0100
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- Organization: Arcor
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Has anybody ever tried making the CP/M Softcard use DEVSEL $C0nX instead
of IOSEL $CnXX for CPU switching, by rerouting that trace? If I
understand things correctly, this should enable using the card in slot 3
(the only one free in my crammed IIe) with a patched CP/M. As the
Softcard doesn't really need ROM space I think this would be easily
possible.
Of course the "slot scanning" code used to find the card would have to
go away (rather than merely be modified), as randomly accessing DEVSEL
space is probably a very bad idea. But the slot 3 location could simply
be hard-coded into the patched CP/M.
Or am I completely on the wrong track here?
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Linards Ticmanis