ANTIC Interview 82 - Cathryn Mataga, Shamus, Zeppelin, Mindwheel - a podcast by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

from 2015-09-18T07:00

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Cathryn Mataga: Shamus, Zeppelin, Mindwheel


 


Cathryn Mataga wrote several games that were published by Synapse software: Shamus, Shamus Case II, and Zeppelin, then three electronic novels: Brimstone, Essex, and Mindwheel.


 


In this interview we discuss Ihor Wolosenko, whom I previously interviewed for this podcast.


 


This interview took place on May 17, 2015.


 


Teaser quotes:


 


“These games were pretty hard. It was quite a bit of work, actually, to make a game by yourself. And it was all assembly language. And I was doing all the art and all the stuff. They were pretty involved projects for me, personally.”


 


“There was a tragic bug in the music driver in all of the Synapse 8-bit titles ... When they went to the new Atari XLs, when they upgraded the operating system, all these games crashed. And they all came back.”


 


Link:


Software at AtariMania

Further episodes of ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast

Further podcasts by Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold

Website of Randy Kindig, Kay Savetz, Brad Arnold