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Ed Rotberg

Ed Rotberg, Rotberg Synthesizer    Ed Rotberg worked programmer in Atari’s coin-op division, where he worked on Atari Baseball, Battlezone, Blasteroids, Hard Drivin’, and other coin-op games. He consulted for the Atari consumer side, where he created demos for the Atari 800 — including working on the music for the in-store demo — and the Rotberg Synthesizer music software.    Check the show notes atAtariPodcast.com for downloads of the Rotberg Synthesizer and Rotberg Scrolling Marquee software (which I acquired and uploaded toarchive.org after this interview took place.)    This interview took place April 28, 2015.    Teaser quote:    “My good friend Dan Pliskin wrote a tune called Disco Dirge that we programmed into the earliest version of the Rotberg Synthesizer to play at the bachelor party, as kind of a joke. Because Chris who was getting married was a disco fan, he was a disco buff and we all *hated* disco.”    Links:    Rotberg’s sound article in Antic magazine   Article at archive.org   Version of the same article in Softside   Rotberg Scrolling Marquee   Rotberg Synthesizer

Ed Rotberg, Rotberg Synthesizer Ed Rotberg worked programmer in Atari’s coin-op division, where he worked on Atari Baseball, Battlezone, Blasteroids, Hard Drivin’, and other coin-op games. He consulted for the Atari consumer side, where he created demos for the Atari 800 — including working on the music for the in-store demo — and the Rotberg Synthesizer music software. Check the show notes at<a href="http://ataripodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AtariPodcast.com</a> for downloads of the Rotberg Synthesizer and Rotberg Scrolling Marquee software (which I acquired and uploaded to<a href="http://archive.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">archive.org</a> after this interview took place.) This interview took place April 28, 2015. Teaser quote: “My good friend Dan Pliskin wrote a tune called Disco Dirge that we programmed into the earliest version of the Rotberg Synthesizer to play at the bachelor party, as kind of a joke. Because Chris who was getting married was a disco fan, he was a disco buff and we all *hated* disco.” Links: <a href="http://www.atarimagazines.com/v1n4/zounds.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rotberg’s sound article in Antic magazine</a> <a href="https://archive.org/stream/1982-10-anticmagazine/Antic_Vol_1-04_1982-10_Sound_and_Music#page/n33/mode/2up/search/rotberg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Article at archive.org</a> <a href="https://archive.org/stream/softside-magazine-49/SoftSide_49_Vol_6-01_1982-10_Sounds_of_the_Future#page/n57/mode/2up" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Version of the same article in Softside</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/Atari_Rotbergs_Scolling_Marquee_Instructions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rotberg Scrolling Marquee</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/a8b_Sound_Demo_Rotberg_Synthesizer_19xx_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rotberg Synthesizer</a>

ANTIC Interview 72 - Ed Rotberg, Rotberg Synthesizer