Conflict Catcher is a discontinued utility software application that was written by

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and published by

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for

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. It aided Macintosh users in solving conflicts between Mac OS that could occur on startup when a large amount of

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and control panels were installed (see

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). Later versions of Conflict Catcher included a playable Asteroids game as an

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in the About menu. Conflict Catcher included a printed manual written by

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. A

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version was never released, since the extension mechanisms in Mac OS X do not have extension conflicts. The last version of Conflict Catcher was version 9, for

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, sales were already declining and in 2003 Casady & Greene filed for bankruptcy. Conflict Catcher 9 was priced at $63, significantly higher than average prices for utility software.

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