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