ANTIC Interview 82 - Cathryn Mataga, Shamus, Zeppelin, Mindwheel

Published: Sept. 18, 2015, 7 a.m.

Cathryn Mataga: Shamus, Zeppelin, Mindwheel

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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.

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

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This interview took place on May 17, 2015.

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\u201cThese 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.\u201d

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\u201cThere 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.\u201d

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