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Softcard: DEVSEL instead of IOSEL possible?



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