Re: Apple II GUI (was Re: Windows 95, what a joke. really? What the f***?)

[sfxerzf@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us (Stephen E. Adams)]

Joe Barbey (joseph.m.barbey@uwrf.edu) wrote:
: In article <jharrell-3006961343270001@news.dfw.net>, jharrell@dfw.net
: (Jeff A. Harrell) wrote:

: > Rrrr. Back around 1982 or 1983 I owned an Apple //c. I remember DOS 3.3
: > and ProDOS vividly, of course, but towards the end of my relationship with
: > that platform I also remember a GUI-of-sorts that ran on top of ProDOS,
: > just like Windows 3.1 ran on top of MS-DOS.
: > 
: > What I _can't_ remember is what that was called or whether it was an Apple
: > product. I just remember thinking it was really cool. ;)
: > 
: > Can anybody help me out?

: If it looked a lot like the Mac, or the IIgs, it might have been Express
: by Quark.  This package even had the little Trashcan(tm).  On a side note,
: I bought a copy a while back, and of course 1 sector of the main program
: was bad.  If anyone has a copy, and would be willing to send me just the
: main program, I would appreciate it.  Send me an Email.

I had a GUI that came bundled with my UniDisk 3.5 when I purchased my //c.
It was called "Catalyst", and I think the vendor was Quark, but I can't be
sure.  It looked just like a Mac GUI, with the little trashcan!
Unfortunately, my copy was also trashed, and since it was a copy-protected
program, I couldn't make backups of it.  :(

Another Mac-like GUI I've used was put out by Apple Computer itself.  It
was a re-release of the original GUI that came with the //gs (the very
first //gs GUI was 8-bit, not 16-bit).  Apple rewrote the code so it would
run on a //c or enhanced //e.

Yet a third GUI I've used is GEOS by Berkely Softworks.  Unlike Catalyst
or the 8-bit Desktop, which were shells that ran on top of ProDOS, GEOS
was its own operating system.  It could use ProDOS files in its
applications, but GEOS files would not work in ProDOS apps.

Later...

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