"cax", a.k.a "borus"

Hi, my name is Stanislav Borutsky.
I was born in 1973 in ex-USSR, to be more specific - Ukraine.
My nick "cax" is pronounced "sakh" (because it's written in cyrillic letters), it's a part of word "Sakhalin" - the name of the russian island I lived in 1982-1993.

MSX was my first computer - I started to use and program it in 1987, when I was 13.
I wrote a number of basic educational programs and a couple of games in basic+assembler.

In Russia, Yamaha MSX and MSX2 were in many schools and universities - Ministry of Education supplied thousands of classes across the whole USSR. In 1988-1993 I administered 2 MSX2 classes, 10 computers each - 1 teacher and 9 students machines, networked between them.

In 1993 I immigrated to Israel, where I live now. Thanks to Marat Fayzullin, I had fmsx emulator to run on computers at Hebrew University where I was a student.

A month ago, I bought russian Yamaha MSX2 (student model, without floppy drive, 128K RAM + 128K VRAM) on e-Bay. Because I have no disk drive, I decided to convert games to WAV files, burn and load them from CD. The only problem was size - it took me 10-15 min. to load 128K MegaROM via tape interface.

So I found a way to compess games and make them self-extract.
I converted more than 80 MegaROMs, and I continue to add them to my MSX page:

http://cax.narod.ru/msx/packed/index.html

Together with some automated sound processing, this makes possible to load a MegaROM from CD in 3.5-6.5 minutes. Now I am very glad I don't need to wait ages to load a game !

And also I hope my work is useful for the whole MSX community.
That's my contribution to make MSX live long life !