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ZCPR Version 1.0 Release Notice
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Greetings, Everyone,
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I am very pleased to announce (appropriately at Christmas
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time, so Merry Christmas) the formal release of ZCPR -- a Z80-
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based Command Processor Replacement. This program replaces the
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CP/M CCP and greatly extends its capabilities.
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Some of you may have heard of CCPZ and MCPZ during various
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discussions. For those who have heard of these programs, ZCPR is
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the Baseline System to be released into the public domain. It
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was derived from CCPZ Version 4.0, and is an enhancement of this.
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It contains many internal differences which are not readily
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noticable to the CCPZ user, and some new key human engineering
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design changes over CCPZ Version 4.0 (specifically in the SAVE
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and REN commands). For those of you who have been considering
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design changes, including the unsanctioned Version 4.1 and
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numerous Version 4.2 implementations (these fell out of the
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control of CCP-GROUP), ZCPR Version 1.0 is the released baseline
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which CCP-GROUP has decided upon for public release. There are
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several internal "problems" with CCPZ Version 4.0 which have been
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resolved to the satisfaction of the recent working majority of
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CCP-GROUP. Hence, I (and I believe the majority of the above-
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named CCP-GROUP subset) strongly recommend backing up to ZCPR
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Version 1.0 and implementing your modifications from that.
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Now, getting back to everyone in general, ZCPR is the result
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of a Group Effort by CCP-GROUP, a somewhat closely-nit group of
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individuals. For the individual credits, they are listed in the
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ASM and DOC files, and I sincerely apologize if I omitted anyone.
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If I did, the corrections will be issued later.
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ZCPR is the result of several months of rather diligent and
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fascinating work. It completely replaces the Console Command
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Processor of CP/M and will only run on Z80-based CP/M
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microcomputer systems. CP/M is required in order to run it,
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since a "heart" of CP/M, the BDOS, is NOT provided with ZCPR.
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The MAC Assembler is required to assemble it. So far, based upon
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both user feedback and our own experiences, we feel that ZCPR is
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a significant contribution to the Public Domain, and everyone who
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has used it greatly prefers it over standard CP/M.
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ZCPR is being released for Public Distribution through the
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SIG/M User's Group of the Amateur Computer Group of NJ. In the
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spirit of Public Domain software, ZCPR is by no means a panacea,
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but it IS a very nice stepping stone, and you are encouraged to
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feel free to modify it to please yourselves. Future releases of
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ZCPR are quite possible, but said releases from CCP-GROUP should
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not happen for some time. ZCPR has been extensively tested, and,
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although no software can be claimed to be perfect unless it is
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absolutely trivial, CCP-GROUP knows of no functional errors in
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ZCPR Version 1.0.
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Page 1
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ZCPR Version 1.0 Release Notice
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For those interested in pursuing acquisition of ZCPR
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further, I recommend reviewing the HELP File (ZCPR.HLP in the
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SIG/M Release). The opening Information Section gives a fair
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description of some, but not all, of the interesting features
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supported by ZCPR and NOT found in the CP/M CCP. It is roughly
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16K long and should not take too long to print out.
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The next page of this message presents several displays and
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some information on what files compose the ZCPR system.
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CCP-GROUP hopes you enjoy using ZCPR.
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Richard Conn
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Page 2
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ZCPR Version 1.0 Release Notice
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XDIR2 Listing of All Relevant Files
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ZCPR FILES ... ET AL
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XDIR II Version 4.8, Vertical Listing by File Type
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User Number: 0, File Attributes: Non-System
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Filename.Typ Size K Filename.Typ Size K Filename.Typ Size K
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-------- --- ------ -------- --- ------ -------- --- ------
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<Disk Name > 0 MAC .COM 12 ZCPR .MSG 6
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BDOSLOC .ASM 2 SYSGEN .COM 2 ZCPR .WS 40
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ZCPR .ASM 52 ZCPR .DOC 46 ZCPRMSG .WS 6
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CPM .BIN 12 ZCPR .HLP 16
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B: 34 Entries & 14 Files - 172K Bytes Remaining
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File Data: 11 Files - 194K Bytes Displayed
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CRCK Values for Key Files
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File: ZCPR .WS CRC = A2 C2
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File: ZCPR .DOC CRC = 94 B7
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File: ZCPR .HLP CRC = 26 9D
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File: ZCPR .ASM CRC = 7A 46
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File: BDOSLOC .ASM CRC = EB D4
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Explanation of Files
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ZCPR.ASM -- Source to ZCPR; must be assembled by MAC and
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customized by user for his particular system
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ZCPR.HLP -- HELP File for ZCPR; can be read by HELP Version 2.0
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or simply TYPEd out; read this to see a fair
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summary of what ZCPR can do
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ZCPR.DOC -- Full Documentation on ZCPR; this includes
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installation notes, customization notes, and
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detail which expands upon the ZCPR.HLP File
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ZCPR.WS -- WordStar File from which ZCPR.DOC was created
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ZCPR.MSG -- Introductory message on ZCPR
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ZCPRMSG.WS -- WordStar File from which ZCPR.MSG was created
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BDOSLOC.ASM -- BDOS and CCP Locator; this program is handy during
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initial installation of ZCPR and its use is
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documented in ZCPR.DOC
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Page 3
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