Short facs

Height: 1.95 meter.

Weight: Intervall between 108 to 118 KG.

Shoe size: 46 EU.

Star sign: Aquarius (Vattumannen).

Favorite food: Medium rare steak with potato gratin.

Favorite drink: Irish coffee.

Favorite desert: Glace au four.

Favorite candy: Fazer Gröna Kulor.

Nickname: Brage.

Pet: A cat called Charlie.

Drinks to lunch at home: Normal light cow milk from Arla.

My collection

I read a lot of books and I own a large collection of Chess books, programming books, history books, and fiction books.

I like and own several music albums from for example Kent, Magnus Uggla, Nordman and Sarek.

I also collect movies. My favorit program is "A Game of Thrones".

I have also retained all my notes from both Komvux and from Mälardalen University.

Here bellow is small list of some of my favorite books.

Fiction

• "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas.
• "The D'Artagnan Romances" (The three musketeers, 20 year after, Vicomte de Bragelonne) by Alexandre Dumas.
• "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown.
• "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C Clarke.
• "Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann" by Jonas Jonasson.
• "Hundraettåringen som tänkte att han tänkte för mycket" by Jonas Jonasson.

History

• "När Finland var Sverige" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Jean Bernadotte : mannen vi valde" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "De vilda Vasarna - en våldsam historia" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Bernadotte : för Sverige hela tiden" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Kungligt och mänskligt : 200 år med ätten Bernadotte i Sverige" by Herman Lindqvist.
• "Familjen Bernadotte : makten, myterna, människorna" by Arne Norlin.
• "The art of War of Bernadotte" by Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte.
• "Mysteriet Karl XII:s död" by Rolf Uppström
• "Den okända kulan : Karl XII:s död 1718 och människorna omkring honom" by Rolf Uppström
• "Upprättelsen, Olof Dagström och Motivet bakom mordet på Karl XII" by Bob G. Lind.
• "Oscar II : den konungsligaste av alla kungar" by Herman Lindqvist.

Heraldry

• "Riddarhusets vapensköldar" by Magnus Bäckmark.
• "Finlands ridderskaps och adels vapenbok" by G. J. Granfelt.
• "Svenskt Vapenregister"

Chess

• "Starting Out: 1 e4: A reliable repertoire for the improving player" by Neil McDonald.
• "Beating Unusual Chess Defences: 1 e4: Dealing With The Scandinavian, Pirc, Modern, Alekhine And Other Tricky Lines" by Andrew Greet.
• "Openings for Amateurs" by Pete Tamburro.
• "Opening Repertoire: Nimzo and Bogo Indian" by Christof Sielecki.
• "Keep It Simple 1. e4" by Christof Sielecki.
• "Mastering the Nimzo Indian" by Tony Kosten.
• "Winning Chess Middlegames" by Ivan Sokolov.
• "Khalifman: Life and Games" by Gennady Nesis.
• "No regrets" by Yasser Seirawan.
• "Everymans Chess Move by Move series about individual players" by varios authors.
• "Zurich 1953 tournament books" (I own Bronsteins book in 3 different editions, Najdorfs book, Euwes book, Ståhlberg book and Woods book).
• "Schackets Mästare: I huvudet på Ulf Andersson" by Robert Okpu and Thomas Engqvist (I personally got Ulf Anderssons autograf in the book).
• "Tusen och en Schack" by Jonny Hector.
• "Coffeehouse Repertoire 1.e4" by Gawain Jones.
• "Kings Kalashnikov Sicilian" by Daniel King.
• "Caruanas Ruy Lopez : A White Repertoire for Club Players" by Fabiano Caruana.
• "The Dragon Sicilian" by Anish Giri.
• "The Open Sicilian : An Ambitious White Repertoire for Club Players" by Ivan Saric.

In newspapers

When I became 30 years old I got interviewed in both local newspappers.

I have also been mention in Swedish Chess Federation magazine TFS.

Chess

I play Chess at clublevel since 1997. My best score is 2nd place in Eskilstuna SK Club Championship in Chess 2023, 2nd place in Eskilstuna Chess Championship 2022 and 2nd place in Distric Championship 2022. I got a few top 3 best scorer in other editions of these events.

I have also lots of top 3 best scorer results in different types of Eskilstuna SK events with shorter time controls, a small example of a few of these events. I play lots of online Chess online at Lichess. My best period at local club was from April 2020 (first Eskilstuna Online Championship started do to pandemic) untill June 2024. During this period I won several medals both in online events and in normal eye to eye Chess.

I used to play active Correspondence Chess at ICCF where I for example played in official team matches for Team Sweden and got have a CCM title.

GUIF

I played in handball with GUIF as junior and got 3rd place in Swedish Junior handball championship in 1999 and won Järnvägen Cup 1999.

My retro videogames museum

I like to play retro videogames where I collect modern different retro videogame console replicates and different retro computer replicate consoles. I own for examle a "The C64 Maxi model" computer, a "the Amiga 500 mini" computer, a "The Atari THE400 mini" computer, a "The Spectrum" computer, a "Mini Nintendo" console, a "Mini Super Nintendo" console and a "Sega Megadrive Flashback HD" console. I also own some arcade game single game only machines like for example "PacMan", "Bubble Bobble" and "Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros". I also own a "Evercade" machine and several games collections for it. "Evercade" is multiretro consol that emulates many computer consoles and video games. One buys special licensed and legal rom cartridges for it.

Each replicate console has lots of build in games. The "Sega Megadrive Flashback HD" is unique in the sense that it can also play old "Megadrive" cartridges besides the build in games. I have tried my old cartridges that I had stored in the attic storage and I also bought some old very cheap cartridges at a secondhand store to try out the machines limits and they all work except saving game function, not shure if becouse of machine or if some sort of batterys are used that are to old but it is possible to save states to the machine it self and reload. I also own a old "Sega MegaDrive Turbo" joystick at attice storage, not shure it also works with new machine since I have not found it yet but I found my original "Megadrive" machine.

I also own and old used "Sega Gamegear" original machine and a few games. I even bought a orignal "Sega Master System" converter that make it possible to play "Sega Master System" games on it and I bought a few "Sega Master System" games and they still work. I can conclude that in many cases "Segas" 8 bit versions of the same games are different than "Segas" 16 bit versions. They have same themes, similar graphics, same story but completly different levels. I also read why "Sega Gamegear" lost the portable consol game war in the old days. It used much batterys, possible linked to the fullcolor screen.

Most of my museum are new machines but I also bought some as second hand items, I see nothing wrong in giving the items a new home and save money in the process since they work as they was new and I have no problems in using them.

Commodore 64

The retro machine that I play mostly on are my "Commodore 64 maxi" model. The "Commodore 64 maxi" model is a "remake" of the classical world record best selling computer model from 1982 where I bought the "maxi" model to get a real keyboard. The retromachine has USB ports and HDMI output.

There is also a cheaper smaller "mini" model with a small decoration only keyboard and fewer USB ports so USB hubs are needed if attaching usb stick, keyboard and exra joystick, I can confirm it works well since I gave it to my dad and 2 joysticks, a keyboard and a USB memory attached to the machine this way and using "virtual keyboard" for special keys.

A single joystick is included in both models but it possible to buy extra separate, even some joysticks not made for the machine works with it. Both models has lots of build in games, I belive its 64 internal classical games included.

The original model was my first home computer, my family bought one in 1986. I both played games and made some simple BASIC programming. I updated firmwire in both models to be able to download and play my old original tapegames using converted files on a USB memory. I have even seen commerical sold "Commodore 64" USB memorys sticks with tons game files. Some of my old games I downloaded was double sided so I had to Google how to switch tapes in the middle of a game. I only found at how to do it in Classical mode not Carusell mode. Its actually easy, first play the first tape file. Then when it time change attached tape file but not load it, only return to game.

I also own some "Commodore 64" themed "Evercade" cartrige collections.

Amiga 500

I never owned a original "Amiga 500" but I bought a "Amiga 500 mini" since the games "Battle Chess" and "Speedball 2" was included in build in classical games list, I played both a lot on other consoles the past. The machines comes with 25 build in classical games, a joypad and a classical replice mouse. The model does only have a decorated keyboard like "Mini Commodore 64" so USB hubs are needed if attaching more then 3 USB devices like mouse, keyboard, joypad and extra USB game stick. Like the both the "retro Commodore 64" models its possible to upgrade firmwire to play additional games using a USB stick with converted games files. I have even seen commercial sold "Amiga 500" USB memory sticks with tons of game files. I also noticed that "Monkey Island" games also exist for "Amiga" thus possible to download and play. I own them on PC but antivirus claims the original anniversary CD version of the games is a virus. Even one of my favorite games "Indiana Jones and the fate of Atlantis" exist on "Amiga", I own the version with sounds on PC.

Atari

I never owned an original "Atari" but I bought a "the A400 mini" since it is a classical computer company and one of the pioneers in home computers and video games. A classical joypad and a a game collection is included. It is possible to upgrade firmwire to play additional games on USB sticks and not only play the build in game collection.

I also own a "My Arcade Pocket Player Atari" portable arcade console with old "Atari" games.

I also own a "Evercade Atari edition", basicly a portable "Evercade" with a build in collection of "Atari" games that also can play all "Evercade" cartridges. I also own "Atari" themed "Everacade" cartridges as well.

Spectrum

I have played on "Spectrum" in my youth since one of my classmates had one but I never owned orignal machine myself. I bought a "The Spectrum" to complete my retro museum. The "Spectrum" was very popular in UK but I realy dont know much of the machine more than that is a classical computer. "Spectum" has a special BASIC interpretator that was designed to minimize memory usuage where commands where shortened in memory but displayed with full text at screen.

"Spectrums" keyboard was also special with BASIC commands attached to keys. The rubber keys was also primary controls and games was design to run that way since joysticks, while existed, was extra stuff not included even in original machines when they was new. "The Spectrum" supports joysticks and its possible to uppgrade firmwire to run additional games on USB sticks sticks and not only play the build in game collection. Note that no joystick is included in "The Spectrum". But it has a real working intergrated keyboard and game collection of mixed games is included.

Retro computer summary

Of Retrogames entire serie I think that "The Commodore 64 maxi model" is the best replication and the "Amiga 500 mini" version is 2nd best. I based my opinion of joysticks functions, original feeling and how easy it is to load additional games from USB sticks. I am not that comfortable with "Ataris" special buttons on the joystick that makes it difficult to navigate and run additonal games on USB sticks. I also think is a plus for "The Commodore 64 max" to have a working keyboard and only becouse of this I give it 1st place, but is maybee since I owned the original machine. I cant realy rate "the Spectrum" since its like original I used orignal to little to compare.

Nintendo, Super Nintendo and Sega Megadrive

After much troubles I finally managed to find retro HDMI versions of "Mini Nintendo" and "Mini Super Nintendo". I never owned any of the original machines but two of my classmates had it and other like me played "Sega Megadrive" instead. Both machines has a collection of build in games but can not play any other games like old cartridges.

"Sega Megadrive Flashback HD" console has a larger internal game collections than both "Nintendos" combined and can also play original cartridges. "Sega Megadrive Flashback HD" has an other plus in that the joypads are wireless so better range than default controllers in both "Nintendos". It even exists extensionswires to both "Nintendos" joypads and 3rd party joypads for both "Nintendos".

Evercade

The company "Blaze Entertainment" made a machine called "Evercade" that uses special cartridges collections with different retro games in each cartridge. The games are running in emulators from lots a different retro computers and retro videogame consoles integrated in the same machine. There are at least 50 buyable game collections. "Evercade" platform exists as both a classical console and as portable devices. The portable devices exist in different editions with different looks and different build in games collections and they can play all "Evercade" cartridges as well. Most "Evercade" cartridges contains multiple games on same cartrige.

The differences between "Evercade" cartridges and to download roms in any format oneself and running them on emulators on for example a PC that became popular in about 1998 are that "Evercade" cartridges are actually licensed payed legal games so its not a "grey area" if legal or not in all countrys and also no risk to get computer viruses. One problem is that some cartridges seems completly impossible to find and some collections only exist as intergrated in portable consols and not sold as separted cartridges becouse of licens reasons. From what I read some cartridges also appears to only work on portable consoles and not on stationary consoles becouse of licens reasons. The ganes 100% like the orginal games and are very fun and even has also manuals included in the box.

Evercade troubles and games not working and my solution

While I realy like the "Evercade" concept but in practise I have personally experienced many problems. First I bought a old white statonary consol at a second hand online store but the machine did not work, it appears to be a common error that something on the inside can get broke so nothing is displayed on TV, I have read lots of post of different forums about it. At least I bought it very cheap and got two cartridges and a joypad was part of the package to I still l got material can use with a new "Evercade" and these items was worth more than I bought it for. All "Evercade" stationarys supports up to 4 joypad ports and its possible to have two cartidges in the consol at once. Only one joypad are included in each machine and exra joypads are sold separate. So I thougt OK I buy a completly new blue stationary "Evercade" consol at an other online shop. It had an other cartridge included since never model. The console started but it had some bugs I had to make a few fixes. The joypads are also a bit plastic but I can live with that they work fine.

First several cartriges was not detected and than later some cartridges that used to work stopped working after a software update of the machine. There has been several patches after that update but the console always crashed before being able to download the entire new path, each time at random moments. I tried factory reset multiple times and no differences.

Then I manage to solve it. I dont know why but after moving the device into an other electrical outlet a I managed to update the machines software and suddely the undetected cartriges started to work!

The only game I failed to work is "Duke Nukem collection 1" but I can play "Duke Nukem collection 2". I read at forums that som other persons managed to get this exact cartrige to play at portable but not at stationays. I will email support and ask them to fix it in an update.

My Evercade Super Pocket collection

I have ordered 6 different portable portable "Super Pocket" devices with different integrated game collections not sold as separate cartridges. The editions I bought are "Neogeo", "Atari", "Capcom", "Taito", "Technos" and "Data East". There are currently 6 editions of "Super Pocket" if more are realised I might buy more to have one of each as collection items. There exist other versons of portable "Evercade" devices that have a bigger screen but they are more than twice as expensive per piece.

My Evercade cartridges collection

I will probebly not buy any more cartridges in the future since I am happy with my collection and I also lack space for more any cartridges where many are also impossible to find. The cartridge collections has different colors and number order on the boxes depending on if category is "Home Computer", "Arcade" or "Console". I own this list bellow.

• The C64 collection 1
• The C64 collection 2
• The C64 collection 3
• Duke Nukem collection 1
• Duke Nukem collection 2
• Tomb Raider collection 1
• Bitmap Brothers collection 1
• Bitmap Brothers collection 2
• Thalamus collection 1
• Data East collection 1
• Atari collection 1
• Atari collection 2
• Interplay collection 1
• Gremlin collection 1
• Irem collection 1
• Technos collection 1

Other machines and future

I will not buy any more machines for several reasons, one is lack of space. I was thinking about buying a "Mini Neogeo" but I skip it since I have no relation to the console and the machine does not even look like the original. Instead I bought a "Evercade Neogeo edition". It is portable "Evercade" device with a build in games collection of classical "Neogeo" games that can also  play all "Evercade" cartridges. It does not look like original console either but it was much cheaper and is a more flexibel device.

I have also already have too many video games and to many replicate machines of all formats including a larger collection of original games on "Segas Megadrive", "Sega Master System" and "Sega Gamegear" as well as a have too many "Evercade" cartrige collections so I will therefore not buy any more retro videogames or retro machines in the future.

Pirate machines

There also exist several different China origin retro games pirate clones of for example "Nintendo" where they taken tons of old games into an internal library and they are sold openly in normal online shops. I heared that particullary "Nintendo" hates emulators and replicate machines except the ones they sell themself.

In normal online shops I have also seen several special pirate "Gameboy" look alike machines like "Retroboy" with tons of build in "Nintendo", "Super Nintendo", "Sega Master System", "Sega Megadrive" and lots of other consoles games in the same portable device and other pirate "Gameboy" look a like portable consoles that appers to only have "Nintendo" games. I can add that as I remember the orignal "Gameboy" games was only black and white and these new look alikes appears to have colors to judge by screenshots.

Nostalgica

The original "Commodore 64" could use both cassette tapes, floppy disks and cartridges. Floppy diskdrives was not standard, it was sold separate. I owned a lightpistol called "Magnum" besides joysticks. The cassette players needed calibratation after a while and some cassette players had build in calibration tools. Games could otherwise get "Load errors". Cassette tapes games could take 1 hour to load and new levels needed futher loading time. This was becouse of copy protection reasons since normal cassette players could easy copy a game. Some games even required loading codes from the manual within the game. Many hackers cracked the tapegames and "zipped" the game to remove unnessary garbage reducing loading time into seconds instead of 1 hour. This was called "Turbo". "Turbo 250 by Mr Z" was the most known "turboprogram". Commodore later released "Commodore 128" basically a "Commodore 64" but twice as much RAM. It could also play old "Commodore 64" games but the machine was no a success. "Commodore 64" has 64 KB RAM + 20 KB ROM memory and "Commodore 128" 128 KB RAM. It might not sound much today for either machine but it was lots of RAM in when the original machines was new, 64 KB RAM was actually a argument to buy it since competions machines had much less RAM! RAM was much more expensive in the old days. Even later in 1995 is costed at least 2000 SEK to get 4 MB RAM on a PC with 486 proccessor and today you get 4 GB RAM for less. "Commodore 64" had also a very good sound chip "SID" that was used highest level even in the 2020:s.

My favorite Commodore 64 games

Some of the best "Commodore 64" games that I remember best was "Summer games", "Winter games", "Boulder Dash" games, "Wonderboy", "Super Wonderboy", "Commando", "Operation Wolf", "Mission Impossible" games, "TMHT" games, "BC:s quest for tires", "Grobs Revenge","Hunchback" games, "Bubble Bobble" and "Giana Sisters".

"Giana Sisters" is the world most pirate copyed game since it was a sort of a clone of Nintendo game "Super Mario Bros" but much better in all ways and was forced to be withdrawed from marked after a law suit of being too identical so I belive that almost 100% of those that played that game used "Turbo" pirate copys. There even was a sequal planned with lots of lots of more differences called "Giana 2 – Arthur And Martha In Future World" that after legal issues ended up in the game "Hard N Heavy". I have heard of several clones of "Giana Sisters" with different homemade levels and even some sort of real "Giana Sister 2" sequal with more functions like swimming and other improvments over orignal game but the original makers but I dont know if it reached public. One original "Giane Sisters" clone used "Super Mario Bros" inspired sprites replacments, like "Super Mario". I have also heared rumors that some amateur guy managed port the entire Nintendo game "Super Mario Bros" into "Commodore 64" format.

"Bubble Bobble" has a secret mode called "Super Bubble Bobble". In Commodore 64 press the following keys when the title screen appears: [S] [U] [P] [O] [R] [commodore key]. If the side of the screen turns red for a short period of time, start the game. This mode exists in many other console versions of "Bubble Bobble" but different key combinations are needed in different consoles.

My favorite Sega Megadrive games

Some of my old "Sega Megadrive" favorite games was "Sonic" series, "Quackshot", "Wonderboy" series, "Mega-Lo-Mania", "Castle of Illusion", "Speedball 2", "Road Rash" games, "Desert Strike" series and "Robocop vs Terminator". I also played lots of EA:s Hockey games. I even managed to get a copy of first EA made NHL game already back in the old days by accident, it called simply "NHL Hockey". It also exist a simular game "EA Hockey" but other teams that are national teams. On my original "MegaDrive" consolse the cartride "NHL Hockey" still worked despite being USA region but "EA Hockey" had worked better and had higher speed while "NHL Hockey" was a bit slow. In my new retro machine both have the same speed, it has maybee something to do with PAL/NTSC differences translations in old devices. Later EA made official NHL licensed games with real players and viewable stats starting with "NHLPA Hockey 93" and followed by "NHL 94" etc. I also own the Swedish translated versions with real Swedish teams and real players called "Elitserien 95" and "Elitserien 96". "Elitserien 95" is "NHL 94" with Swedish teams and "Elitserien 96" is "NHL 95" with Swedish teams. I also own "Mortal Combat", a for rental only game that I bought when a video rental store closed down.

The "Megadrive" games listed here are not only the games I own or games I owned. Some of the games listed here was games I borrowed from friends or played at friends only and some games was games I briefly owned or traded at "TV Spelsbörsen". "TV Spelsbörsen" was a store back in the days where every game had a catalog value and one could buy both new and used games and could trade in used games to get discount. The stored had lots of different consoles games like all Nintendo and Sega consoles as well as PC games. It existed in several citys before the entire chain closed down.

While I usually dont play much Pinball, of the cartridges I own its still a high degree of Pinball games. I own "Sonic Spinball" since the old days where I played it alot and also bought "Dragons Revenge" to try out the machine. The problem with buying used games at online shops these days are that there are often only cartridge and no box or manual. Becouse of this I will not buy that many extra games and will mostly play the build in games instead as well as my old cartridges.

Sports games

While I never played real icehockey myself I own 5 of "EA Sports" "Sega Megadrive Hockey" games in form of "NHL Hockey", "EA Hockey", "NHLPA Hockey 93", "Elitserien 95" and "Elitserien 96". On PC I owned all of "EAs NHL" games from 1999 and forward untill EA stoppad to make PC versions of their NHL games, last game was from 2009. I look at my attic storage and I was surprised that I owned two more sport cartridges on "Sega Megadrive" in form of the futuristic handball/ice hockey/american football mix "Speedball 2" and the special basketball like game "Arch Rivals".

Remastered games

Many companys takes old PC titles and upgrades graphics and sounds and realeased it a remastered editions. I own "Commmand & Conquer + Red Alert" remastered, "Secret of Monkey Island 1+2" remastered "WarCraft 1" + "WarCraft 2" + "WarCraft3" remastered and "StarCraft 1 remastered". In 2025 I even bought a second hand strategy guide for "WarCraft 2" and got inspiration and followed the advices and easely won the human campaign, I failed to win the last human missions without cheat back in 1995 but with the guide I understood better how to win over the Dragons.

Import taxes

Sometimes when buying stuff online extra taxes are added. I bought a couple of "Sega MegaDrive" cartidges at "CDON.com", a large Swedish trading market plattform. And one of the times I had to pay expensive import taxes. When I bought other "Sega Megadrive" cartrides at other Swedish online shops there are no such thing yet. One other time I also had to pay import taxes was when I bought a "Commodore 64 maxi model" at an other trading market place called "Fruugo". Sometime I even had to pay import taxes on "Amazon" bought items. And sometimes even online stores that appears to be 100% Swedish has resulted in import taxes.

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