04-09-2025, 08:45 PM
Thanks to snake & Graham72 for making aware of the presence of Z3Plus (Z-System for CP/M Plus) and Graham72's help in configuring it to run on the Microbee.
Z3PLUS for CP/M-Plus computers is the result of the extensive cooperative efforts of Joe Wright, Bridger Mitchell, and Jay Sage in 1988.
Z3PLUS is a major enhancement of the standard CP/M-Plus operating system. It gives you completely new software for processing commands that is functionally the same as the widely popular ZCPR3 system or Z-System for CP/M-2.2 computers. At the same time, Z3PLUS retains the lower-level software (the BIOS and BDOS) of CP/M-Plus, allowing you to continue to take advantage of the best features of your current system.
The central function of the Z3PLUS system is to enhance the control and processing of the commands that direct the CP/M system. It provides :-
• convenient editing of mistyped commands
• recall of previous commands for re-use, correction, or modification
• conditional execution of a sequence of commands, where execution can depend on:
– the success/failure of programs previously executed
– the availability and characteristics of necessary files
– the user’s privileges and other system characteristics
– run-time input from the user.
• named directories to conveniently segregate files and optionally protect directories with passwords
• command aliases, single commands that cause an entire command script to execute automatically
This is an update to CP/M 3 (Plus) and the 2 versions we have are intended for Microbee 128k, Premium 128k and PP+ only. Two disk versions are available with the DS40 (5.25") having the minimum files needed to run the program while the DS80 version has all the available utilities as well. Both disks autoboots Z3Plus with its Terminal setup for the Microbee. The traditional directory program L.COM is also there, but DIR or just D will also give the disk Directory. EXIT will exit Z3Plus and jump you back to CP/M 3.
Read the RELEASE.NOT file for the latest and previous updates to the program.
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For any further discussion, see https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/thread-827.html
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\System_Disks folder we placed
z3plus_v1.02f_ds40.dsk
z3plus_v1.02f_ds80.dsk
z3plus_users_manual.pdf <-- in Documentation/Manuals/Software folder
Z3PLUS for CP/M-Plus computers is the result of the extensive cooperative efforts of Joe Wright, Bridger Mitchell, and Jay Sage in 1988.
Z3PLUS is a major enhancement of the standard CP/M-Plus operating system. It gives you completely new software for processing commands that is functionally the same as the widely popular ZCPR3 system or Z-System for CP/M-2.2 computers. At the same time, Z3PLUS retains the lower-level software (the BIOS and BDOS) of CP/M-Plus, allowing you to continue to take advantage of the best features of your current system.
The central function of the Z3PLUS system is to enhance the control and processing of the commands that direct the CP/M system. It provides :-
• convenient editing of mistyped commands
• recall of previous commands for re-use, correction, or modification
• conditional execution of a sequence of commands, where execution can depend on:
– the success/failure of programs previously executed
– the availability and characteristics of necessary files
– the user’s privileges and other system characteristics
– run-time input from the user.
• named directories to conveniently segregate files and optionally protect directories with passwords
• command aliases, single commands that cause an entire command script to execute automatically
This is an update to CP/M 3 (Plus) and the 2 versions we have are intended for Microbee 128k, Premium 128k and PP+ only. Two disk versions are available with the DS40 (5.25") having the minimum files needed to run the program while the DS80 version has all the available utilities as well. Both disks autoboots Z3Plus with its Terminal setup for the Microbee. The traditional directory program L.COM is also there, but DIR or just D will also give the disk Directory. EXIT will exit Z3Plus and jump you back to CP/M 3.
Read the RELEASE.NOT file for the latest and previous updates to the program.
For any further discussion, see https://microbeetechnology.com.au/forum/thread-827.html
So in the MbeeTech Repository in the Microbee\Software\System_Disks folder we placed
z3plus_v1.02f_ds40.dsk
z3plus_v1.02f_ds80.dsk
z3plus_users_manual.pdf <-- in Documentation/Manuals/Software folder
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