I own a CRT TV, namely a Bang&Olufsen BeoCenter 1. It’s not mine originally, as I bought it second hand a few years ago for my MisterFPGA for only 600 SEK. It’s not my ideal TV either. That would be the Sony Trinitron, which is one of the best ever made.

But now there is a dilemma, as scalpers on second hand market sites want SillyMoney for anything with the word “Trinitron” in it. And most other sets on sale are the cast offs of yesteryear. Seeing a 21” Sony Trinitron for 25000 SEK feels outrageous. Curiously …

Welcome to the first RetroKväll of the year! It's been... a while, since the last RetroKväll, and I said last time that it was going to be hard to top that one, but dammit, i'm going to try!

So here is the The Plan for this round:

• Choose-Your-Own-Competition-Game

  • Keep it secret; keep it safe, and surprise us on the day with that game you were so Ninja with back in the day. Just remember that the others have their own game they rocked at.

• SID-Tunes

  • Name That Game. Ten memorable melodies from the golden era of synth tunes.

• System Of …

I went to secondary school between 1985-1990, and back then, I still had a Commodore VIC-20, which my dad bought me, probably as some kind of guilt-gift, for my 7th birthday. At the time I started secondary school, I didn't play on that VIC-20 that much anymore, as it had outlived it's ability to entertain. During the first year or so, I started to see that some of the kids at my school either had ZX Spectrum's or Commodore 64's, and I started to lust after a Commodore 64; mainly because it wasn't four colour graphics and had better sound …