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Welcome to my homepage! My name is Ronny Nordqvist and was born autumn 1966 in a small town called Kristianstad. The town is located in south of Sweden. My interest in gameplaying started in the arcade halls outside Kristianstad. The greatest arcade halls were in south of Kristianstad in a place called Åhus. But there was a problem I was only 13 years old and you had to be 15 to play :( . The only possiblility was to bring my parents :( .
My computer interest started in 1982 when I started high school. ABC 80 (Swedish computer by Luxor) was my first encountring with a computer. This moment changed my hole life, I changed from a normal kid into a computer freak. Computers was in my mind day and night. When I was awake I was sitting infront of the schools computer, and when I was asleep I was dreaming about a computer of my own.
Autumn 1982 I got my first computer of my own, a ZX Spectrum 16K. After a week I upgraded to 48K (out of memory :( ). I purchased all magazines I could get to learn more about programming. You can find some of my games for download at the Spectrum page they are not the best (what can you expect from over 10 years old games).
In 1984 my school got ABC800 computers with 80 characters screen! One even had a color monitor (wow! ). I converted one of my Spectrum games, "Blaster" and created a scrolling car game to this computer.
In 1985 I graduated and started to work, I joined the company's computer club. There were 2-3 Commodore 64 available for home rent. After a while I played Uridium this was an incredible experience, arcade graphics on a home computer. After this I had to get a C64 of my own. In the beginning I just played games, but after a while I started the games only for the great music. After a long time of ripping music, I wanted to use them, and my interest in demos started.
In 1986 I and Sal founded Software Of Sweden. When Amiga 1000 came to our town we where totaly amazed, 4096 colors (HAM)!!
In May 1987 I was the first in Kristianstad to own a Amiga 500. Much happend in 1987, PIQ and White knight joined us and our first Amiga demos were created. At that moment all demos came from other countries, so we were early in making Swedish Amiga demos. After a while I learned 68000 assembler at this moment this was something unique. Autumn this year I was at my first copy party, in Furulund. Here we met new members of S.O.S. This was the first time we attended in a demo competition. Dark overlord (Kaktus) had coded this C64 demo. The music from the winner demo can be found here. Later Dark overlord left us and formed Kaktus&Mahoney.
1988 we held a copy party in Kristianstad. Groups like Vortex 42, Xakk, Front, Kaktus&Mahoney etc were there. Kaktus&Mahoney won the demo party (this was their last C64 demo). Later in 1988 I went to Vortex 42 party in Arvika. I won the 5th place in the C64 demo competition.
I started to convert one of the best Spectrum game to Amiga in 1989 called Atic Atac. The not finnished Amiga version can be found here.
Last time I was at a copy party was in 1990, here I released our last Amiga Demos.
In 1991 I met my girl friend and my life changed for a while to more normal. My good old friend Christian (Beast) gave me inspiration for programming again. He was interested in coding demos and intros on Amiga. After his first intro he released his first game called SuperTron. Meanwhile I released a pong game. I bought a CDTV and an Amiga 3000.
In 1994 Christian bought a Pc but I bought both Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000. At the end of 1994 I bought my first Pc, what a piece of junk, when I booted it all fuses burned up! I sold it very soon.
In the spring 1995 I bought a new Pc. In May Christian Started to code Bubble Pop. In the beginning we coded together, but after a while Christian continued coding and I focused on designing graphics for the game.
At the end of 1995 I started my first try to convert Bubble Pop to Amiga, but I had not enough time to finnish it.
1996 Software Of Sweden celebrates 10 Years fun!
In the spring 1996 we contacted a publisher for Bubble Pop, they were very excited about the game but they went through a reorganization so nothing happend :( .
1997 Realesed more games for the Amiga. BubblePop Memory. SuperTron97. Mattel Electronics Battlestar Galactica Space Alert Simulator. Started my work with the Amiga version of Bomb Blast. Made my first simple PC game Pong97.
1998 I am still interested in programming. I will never sell my computers!
My Family.

Picture of me when I was 5 years old.
My girlfriend Jeanette.
My cat Mirre
My Other cat Curre (and Jeanette) in the bath
A picture drawn by my cat Mirre
My Computers.

Osborne 2 ( first portable computer)
ZX 81
ZX Spectrum 48K
ZX Spectrum+ 48K
ZX Spectrum 128K
Modified Spectrum 48K
Sinclair Oxford 300 Calculator
Sinclair QL 768K, floppy drive
Vic 20
Commodore Calculator
9 (6 different types of) C64
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D
Amiga 1000
3 Amiga 2000
CDTV
3 Amiga 500
Amiga 3000
2 Amiga 1200
2 Amiga 4000
MSX Spectravideo 728
Pentium MMX 166mhz
Pentium II 233mhz
Intellevision System III
Nintendo 8-bit
Philips G7000
Playstation
Sega Master System
Music I Like

Vince Clark (First Depeche Mode,Yazoo,The Assembly,Erasure)
Dieter Bohlen (Modern Talking,Blue System)
Bad Boys Blue
Elvis Presley (The King)
Kraftwerk
Elektric Music
S.P.O.C.K
Mike Oldfield
Jan Hammer
Jean Michel Jarre
Yello
Italo Dance Music(Ken Lazlo,Savage,Scotch,TRANS-X)
Ciber People,Daylight,Hypnosis,Koto,Laserdance,Proxyon
Techno (Corona,Cappella,DJ Bobo,Haddaway,U96,Twenty 4 Seven)
My UsedCars.

Escort-current
Amazon
Bajan
Porschen
Beach Buggy
Kojan
^{Cool Links}

User-Added, Games-Related Links

Christian Björkqvist (Beast/SOS)

The HotSpot

Please Contact me for any reason (Game development, Amiga coding, Emulators, Spectrum, C64...)

Ron.sos@origo.net