Synapse software
| Synapse software
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| legal form | Corporation |
| resolution | 1986 |
| Reason for dissolution | Closure by parent company Brøderbund |
| Seat |
Richmond, California , United States
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| management | Ihor Volosenko |
| Branch | Software development |
Synapse Software was a US software company. It was based in Richmond , California . The company was founded by Ihor Wolosenko and Ken Grant and was one of the better-known software houses in the 1980s.
Well-known productions include Fort Apocalypse by Steve Hales , Blue Max and Shamus by William Mataga, and the adventure Mindwheel , on which Hales and Mataga worked with the poet Robert Pinsky . The action games programmed by Bill Williams for Synapse also sold well; the Ludo historian Jimmy Maher calls Synapse Software the "masters of Atari 8-bit action games". The covers of the Synapse games were designed by Tim Boxell, who had previously drawn comics and was a friend of Wolosenko.
The studio also produced user software for the Atari home computers . Programs like SynFile or SynCalc were partly aimed at professional users and were published by Atari . After the video game Crash 1983, Atari was sold to Jack Tramiel , who refused to pay for 40,000 Synapse software products that had already been shipped. In 1984 Synapse got into financial difficulties and signed a contract in October 1984 that regulated the takeover by Brøderbund . Two years later, Synapse was closed due to a lack of profitability. Another text adventure, which had the world of the samurai as its content, was completed by this time, but was no longer published.
Ludography
| Surname | year | genre | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alley Cat | 1983 | Jump 'n' run | Ariolasoft |
| Blue Max | 1983 | Action | Synapse |
| Blue Max 2001 | 1984 | Action | Ariolasoft |
| Breakers | 1986 | Text adventure | Brøderbund |
| Brimstone | 1985 | Text adventure | Brøderbund |
| Dimension X | 1984 | Action | Synapse |
| Doughboy | 1984 | Action | Synapse |
| Drelbs | 1983 | strategy | Synapse |
| Electrician | 1986 | Action | Kemco |
| Essex | 1985 | Text adventure | Brøderbund |
| Fort Apocalypse | 1982 | Action | Synapse |
| Mind Walker | 1986 | Action | Commodore |
| Mindwheel | 1984 | Text adventure | Brøderbund |
| Necromancer | 1982 | Action | Synapse |
| Sentinel | 1984 | Action | Synapse |
| Shamus | 1982 | Action | Synapse |
literature
- Interview with Ihor Wolosenko ANTIC VOL. 2, NO. 1 / APRIL 1983 / PAGE 21
Web links
- Synapse Software at MobyGames (English)
- Synapse Software on idiology.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Steve Hale's interview. In: James Hague: Halcyon Days. (English)
- ↑ Filfre.net: Bill Williams: The Story of a Life. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
- ↑ ROM # 9, December / January 1985, p. 23: Synapse: A Business Approach. Retrieved September 22, 2016 .
- ↑ InverseAtAscii.info: S1E6 Synapse SynFile + - Supplement. Retrieved September 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Jack Powell: Synapse merges with Brøderbund. In: Antic, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 1985, p. 16 (English)
- ↑ Filfre.net: Bookware's Sunset. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .