This is an old program designed to return the soft error count for Heath/Zenith 89/90 computers with H17 or H37 drives. An increasing number of soft error counts indicates some drive maintenance may be necessary. This is particularly true with 96 tpi H37 drives. The original program works fine with standard CPM and with ZCPRx.x but it fails under NZCOM,a self installing ZCPR3. NZCOM installs a small "virtual" BIOS just under the real BIOS and replaces the warm boot vector at 01H(in page 0) with a vector to this NZCOM BIOS. ERR.COM uses the warm boot vector to find the correct address in the real BIOS where the error count is stored. The ERR source has been modified to recognize if the program is running under standard CPM or NZCOM [NZCOM can change on the fly between CPM and ZCPR3.4]. Most of you will just want to modify the ERR.COM file with DDT or better yet PATCH or ZPATCH. Change the values at the following addresses to match your needs: 112h ffh = running NZCOM OR standard CPM /either works for 00h = hard coded ZCPR3 OR standard CPM \ standard CPM 11Ah,11bh = NZCOM NZBIO size(00 09 =0900h) 121h ffh = using h17 drives 00h = no h17 drives 127h ffh = using h37 drives 00h = no h37 drives 130h ffh = print CPM version message 00h = do not print CPM version message If you prefer you may reassemble the source file after changing the following four equates at the beginning of the program and then assemble ERR.Z80. Use MLOAD to convert the HEX file to a COM file. NZCOM EQU FALSE if you are a hard coded Z3 or CPM /either for TRUE if you have NZCOM or standard CPM \CPM! H17 EQU TRUE if you use H17 drives FALSE if you do not use H17 drives H37 EQU TRUE for H37 drives FALSE if no H37 drives VERMSG EQU FALSE for no CPM version message TRUE to print CPM version message along with error count **********************************NOTE************************************* * If you have NZCOM and use other than the standard NZBIO.ZRL * * you will need to change the value of NZBIO to the correct * * size of your virtual bios to obtain the proper offset to * * your real BIOS. * ***************************************************************************