Re: Catalyst for Apple II

["John Van Winkle" <appleiieman@charter.net>]

Thanks Stephen!  I wasn't aware of that.
I was browsing some info and heard
about the program and thought I would
try it.

-- 
John Van Winkle
appleiieman@charter.net
Home of the 2 Enhanced
Apple IIe's
"Stephen Adams" <sea4929@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:1imdc.1710$zj3.472@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> 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.