Ed Bogas
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Ed Bogas is an American musician who has composed music for various media including film, telvision, and video games. He has a sophisticated music style, being able to compose music in many genres including rock and jazz. Bogas composed music for various game companies including Equilibrium and Spectrum Holobyte. He has also previously played as the keyboardist in the band "The United States of America".
In 1992, some of Bogas' music from The Music Studio (AST) was used in the infamous game Action 52 (NES) and Cheetahmen II (NES).
Some of Bogas' notable works are for the Fritz the Cat, Garfield, and Peanuts movies. He's also known for game soundtracks such as Action 52/Cheetahmen and Gran Turismo 4.
Bogas was also the voice of the Crusty the Cat animatronic from Showbiz Pizza Time Theater.
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Audio Development
Amiga
Bogas created MIDI files in Super Studio Session, which were converted to Kevin Seghetti's Amiga sound driver.
Atari ST
Bogas used The Music Studio (AST), in which music was entered in musical notation on a staff roll.
ColecoVision
Juke Box (C64) was ported to Juke Box (CV).
Commodore 64
Bogas' music is in four known drivers that were respectively used:
- at Accolade.
- at Joyce Hakansson Associates and on Beanstalk (C64).
- on Murder on the Mississippi (C64). This driver may have been written by Adam Bellin (the game's creator), Peter Kaminski or Russell Lieblich (two of five people given "Special thanks" in the manual).
- on Park Patrol (C64).
DOS
Bogas used his own program Super Studio Session.
NES
For Peter Pan and the Pirates, Bogas wrote the music in 6502 assembly using a sound driver by Jeff Lefferts.
For Action 52 and Cheetahmen II, the games both borrow music from The Music Studio. Ed was not involved with the game's production, and instead, his work was arranged for the NES without his knowledge by Mario Gonzalez. The songs used from The Music Studio include Aisle Dance, Tango, Calypso, Bossa Nova, Boogie,and Walker. The music was used due to the developers of Action 52 and Cheetahmen II leaving and Mario taking on more and more responsibilities as the deadlines approached.
SNES
Bogas created a MIDI conversion tool, which was converted to Chip Level Designs' audio driver.
Gameography
Picture Gallery
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His website, 2004.
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Links
- ebogas.com - Official.
- mobygames.com/person/3500/ed-bogas/ - MobyGames.
