Apple Mouse

Tom Owad wrote: I'm glad you said that, because I was going to say the same thing! The problem is that I remember almost nothing about the program, so I wasn't sure if I was imagining it. The one we had was made (I think) by a company called Quark. We used it as a menu-driven shell to run programs off a ProFile. (Yes, this WAS on an Apple //e. The ProFile came from the Lisa in my dad's office after his company scrapped it. Sorry, I don't have the Lisa or the ProFile or the interface card or Catalyst or even the //e. I wish I did.) It was supposed to do fancy things, and it was copy-protected pretty heavily. I don't know why the company hyped it so much. It might have helped you install ill-behaved programs on the hard drive. I kind of remember using it as a boot disk though I also kind of remember that the hard drive was capable of booting itself. I would put Catalyst in the category of "software produced by a small company that thought they were great and made great software, except no one else agreed." The company copy-protected their disks very heavily, too... I was never able to back Catalyst up, even with Copy ][+. I think I wiped out one of the two identical diskettes we got, and I think it was when I was trying to copy the software. I hope this message is useful -- I just like to reminisce about my Apple experience. :) -- Derek