Homepage of Stanislav Borutsky, also known as "cax" or "borus"

Firmwares (modified by me) for DVD players based on MTK chipset

15/10/2010 - fMSX for Sansa e200 - unofficial Rockbox plugin:

Ever wanted to play MSX games on device that wasn't built for gaming, e.g. on MP3 player ? Then you need Rockbox, a replacement OS running on a variety of media players like Archos, iriver, Cowon, Sansa e200 and old iPods, for which you can develop a plugin in C language. Such a plugin can also be a port of fMSX emulator, and that's exactly what I am going to share with you.

Developed 3.5 years ago, fMSX-Sansa is based on a way ancient version 3.0 of Marat Fayzullin's fMSX and runs without sound, but provides states saving, screen rotation/resizing and all MSX keys accessible from special set of menus.

While you can enjoy fMSX on your Sansa e2xx portable media player as is, the main reason for releasing emulator is that I decided to abandon the project. As an alternative to leaving the port rot on the hard disk, I want to give other developers a chance to make something useful out of it - e.g. add sound support, adapt sources to other media players running Rockbox or use the code to create a BlueMSX Lite port, which is compatible with Rockbox license and, if will be developed, may be included in the official Rockbox distribution.

fMSX-Sansa emulator and it's sources can be downloaded from here.
For more detailed information about the port, please take a look at fMSX-Rockbox-Sansa README.

27/08/2010 - Russian support patch for GMU player 0.7.1 on Dingux (fixed):
This patch adds support for Russian filenames and ID3 tags in GMU 0.7.1.
Just extract contents of gmu-0.7.1-DINGOO-Russian-chars.zip into your local/apps/gmu folder.

Notes:
- Previous release was incomplete - please reinstall this one to add the missing font.
- The patch supports Russian chars encoded with UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings in ID3v2.* tags, and ID3v1 (8-bit only) tags with cp1251 encoding.
To avoid the misunderstanding, the zip name suffix was changed from "cp1251" to "Russian-chars"
- After installing the patch, if you see an unreadable mess of Russian characters ("krakozyabry") - erase and re-create the playlists.

Technical info:
If you want to compile GMU with Russian support for other platforms, use the patched charset.c included in the zip above.
Patched gmu binary doesn't break the support of iso8859_1 encoding as it may seam -
copy themes\default-modern\themes\default-modern\theme.conf.orig into theme.conf to switch back from cp1251 to iso8859_1 fonts.

Download GMU 0.7.1 Cyrillic patch here.
Original GMU 0.7.1 distributive (if you didn't install it yet) is here.

10/08/2010 - Russian Phonetic Keyboard (YaWeRT mapping with my own modifications):
This version of Russian Phonetic Keyboard Layout is made from the popular KBDRUPH.DLL layout
by adding back chars #$^+=&\|`~ that are used to represent Cyrillic letters.
Just press Control together with the corresponding key (and Shift, if needed) to type them.
This keyboard layout is made with help of MSKLC 1.4 - Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator,
and this means it can be installed on any modern version of Windows by just running setup.exe.
If you want to make your own layout with MSKLC - use the included .klc project file.

Download keyboard layout setup here.
More information can be found here.

13/02/2010 - ScummVM On Dingoo As It Was Meant To Be (my mod of ChaoticBob's Dingux port of ScummVM):

I wanted to play Larry on ScummVM, but it had no virtual keyboard.
As I discovered later, in fact it has 2 keyboards built-in, but requires adding a file and a code modification to use them.
In addition I enabled all engines ScummVM supports, added missing files, upgraded to 1.0.0 sources, and stripped the binary.

Update (19/02/2010):

X button is remapped to Enter

Here is a binary package of ScummVM 1.0.0 for Dingux:

scummvm-1.0.0-chaoticbob-cax.bin.zip

Zip file contains directory named "scummvm". Extract the zip into local/emulators folder.
Read the README file for the full info about this mod.

The modified source code can be downloaded here:

scummvm-1.0.0-chaoticbob-cax.src.tgz

MSX-related projects:

I am an English-to-Russian translator and moderator of ru.msx.org. Welcome !
Self-extracting MSX MegaROM games site.
MSX Basic Classroom Network 3.0 Commands (as found in russian Yamaha MSX2 KYBT classes)
Сборка MSX-Link и его использование (инструкция для чайников в электронике) - зеркало

27/01/2010 - My mod of Zx-81's Dingux port of Marat Fayzullin's fMSX:

I liked Zx-81's fMSX Dingux port very much, but it missed some features I needed myself.
So... Here is the list of modifications I made to fMSX-Dingux:

added full-screen up-scaling
added MegaROM type auto-detection by SHA1 checksum (so games like Aleste and Batman work now)
assigned "Exit" in menu to X button
first save state is loaded automatically on ROM opening
path to last opened rom/dsk/zip is remembered after exiting from emulator
fixed "sound persists on state loading" bug
fixed gfx garbage in menu (manifests itself in full-screen mode)
fmpac.rom is not loaded after reset if "Music FM-PAC" is switched off in Settings

Update (29/01/2010):

fixed loading ROMs from ZIP files (was broken in original mod released 27/01/2010)

Here is a binary patch for Dingux-MSX 1.1.0 :

dingux-msx-v1.1.0.cax-bin.zip

Extract the zip file into local/emulators/dingux-msx folder overriding the existing files on your SD card.
Read the README.cax.txt file for the full info about this mod.

The modified source code can be downloaded here:

dingux-msx-v1.1.0.cax-src.zip