In A500, the address decoding performed by the Gary chip could be disabled with the /OVR override signal for certain address spaces only, but not the area which used by this hack. But it seems to be work in practice. In the Commdore Amiga A500/A2000 Techical Reference Manual, page 93: " The /OVR, override, signal is a special Amiga expansion signal that can serve two purposes. The signal can basically turn off the on- board decoding of system memory ranges. As a result of this, it can also turn off internally generated things, like /DTACK. The timing in the A500 and B2000, based on the Gary chip (not the PALs of the older machines) effectively prohibits the use of OVR* for the area outside of $200000 and $9FFFFF. " ... it continues to say that to use this signal for tristating the /DTACK is better supported.