John wrote:
Does anyone have a copy of this software? I understand it was used as a menu type program for the Profile hard drives. I would like to try it on the CFFA card. -- John Van Winkle Appleiieman@charter.net Home of the 2 Enhanced Apple IIe's
I used to have it, until my "key" diskette died and Catalyst would no longer work.
The program came with my UniDisk 3.5 drive that I bought for my Apple //c in 1986. I installed it on my 800 KB diskettes, but without a mouse, it was extremely irritating to try to navigate the GUI using keyboard equivalents. Unfortunately, the copy protection scheme needed to have its "key" diskette inserted into the drive to start the machine. This arrangement was pretty useless for me, given that I only had one UniDisk drive and was unable to use it for both the "key" and application/data diskette. :)
Perhaps someone has "cracked" Catalyst to work without the "key" diskette. I just wanted to make you aware that there was a copy-protection scheme in place for this program.