Log message:
Updated mame to 0.176.

It's the last Wednesday of the month, and time for another MAME
release. We'd like to thank the Debian team for their help during
this development cycle: they've provided patches allowing MAME to
build cleanly on several more platforms, and arranged access to
IBM-sponsored POWER8 machines so we could improve our PowerPC
support.

The popular crt-geom and crt-geom-deluxe shaders have been ported
to BGFX and are now distributed with MAME, thanks to cgwg. The BGFX
versions of these shaders allow live adjustment of effect parameters
through the slider controls menu.

Interesting newly supported games include rare Soviet arcade games
Gorodki and Kot Rybolov, gambling mahjong game Swing Gal, and
alternate versions of Beastie Feastie and Raiden Fighters 2. Graphical
issues have been fixed in Seibu Kaihatsu's Denjin Makai, Godzilla,
Legionnaire and Zero Team, and there are some improvements to the
Tandy CoCo 3 palette. A few remaining gameplay issues in Taito's
Operation Wolf were resolved.

Thanks to a huge group effort involving some of our highly valued
external contributors as well some MAME team members, we've got
some visible progress on the Sun SPARCstation drivers. The SPARCstation
IPC (sun4_40 driver) now passes its self-tests and allows you to
use the OpenBoot interactive Forth interpreter at the ok prompt.
Note that there are still issues with SCSI emulation, so it won't
boot from and emulated hard disk or CD-ROM. In other news for
emulation of professional systems, MAME now supports the TeleVideo
990 and 995-65 terminals.

For people using CRT monitors and/or running games at native
resolution, we've added a lot of characters to the uismall.bdf font
supplied with MAME. It now covers most European languages using
Latin and Cyrillic scripts, as well as modern Greek and half-width
katakana. Changes were also made to improve legibility.

For developers, scrolling and hilighting in the state (registers)
view have been fixed, and viewing memory in the debugger no longer
causes spurious side effects like bank switches in systems like the
Apple II and Osborne 1. There's also been a lot of refactoring and
modernisation, particularly in the netlist and UI code.

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Remove python33: adapt all packages that refer to it.

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Avoid GCC_REQD= in favour of GCC_REQD+=

The latter allows users to override the value with a newer version.

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Add upstream bug report URL.

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Update mame to 0.175.

Get ready for your vacation and grab MAME 0.175!

We're proud to say MAME now supports a number of previously unemulated
prototypes, alternate versions of games, and unusual systems.
Prototypes include the super-rare Konami Kyuukoukabakugekitai, Home
Data's Mahjong Joshi Pro-wres Give Up 5 Byou Mae, and an early
Japanese version of E.D.F.: Earth Defense Force. Atari Moto Frenzy,
previously lacking protection emulation, is now fully playable.
We've also added a number of gambling games, including some Flaming
7's variants.

Many more Game Boy peripherals are now supported, including real-time
clocks, light sensors and tilt sensors. This makes several previously
unsupported games fully playable.

This release includes improvements to the Sega Master System and
SG-1000 emulation, including better SG-1000 expansion slot support,
and drivers with correct clock speeds for South American Master
System variants.

There's some big news in Sun emulation: all sun3 models will now
POST, MAME has a SPARCv7 CPU core, and there has been substantial
progress towards emulating the SPARCstation 1 (sun4c). Using unidasm
(built with TOOLS=1) you can disassemble SPARCv7 SPARCv7 or SPARCv9
code, incuding all VIS variants up to VIS-3B.

As usual, there are many emulation improvements, including fixes
for keyboard controls in some TRS-80 games, and better Seibu COP
emulation in Legionnaire, Heated Barrel and Godzilla.

In less visible changes, MAME's memory system got a nice cleanup
exposing a number of existing issues which are now fixed, and the
netlist-based discrete circuit simulation code has had a major
overhaul with lots of performance improvements. There are a number
of improvements to MAME's debugger modules in this release,
particularly the imgui-based debugger.

Log message:
Update mame to 0.174.

Remove merged patches.

We're pleased to announce the release of MAME 0.174!

This new release includes some exciting newly-playable machines,
including the Tiger Game.com handheld and the ultra-rare Seibu
Kaihatsu title, Metal Freezer.

Meanwhile, the Apple 2 driver now supports the Mockingboard 4C card,
and the regressions in the IT Eagle (Golden Tee Fore) driver's
colors from the previous release have been fixed.

Last but not least, there should be better support for DirectInput
8 on Windows, including supporting older game controllers which
previously only worked using the DirectInput 7 module. If you still
have a controller which DirectInput 8 does not support that you
regularly use, please contact us so that we know what controllers
still do not work.

Log message:
Remove unneeded patch.

Log message:
Updated mame to 0.173.

It's the end of another month, and time for a new MAME release.
This time there are more improvements for capabilities we have added
in previous versions.

MAME now includes ports of some popular shaders for the BGFX renderer,
including the EAGLE, HQx and xBR scaling effects. Please be aware
that the BGFX renderer is still a work in progress, and you may
experience some stability issues when using it.

This release introduces a new cheat engine based on the Lua scripting
language. This opens the door to exciting new possibilities. One
of the most significant improvements is better support for systems
with banked memory, including many 8-bit home computers like the
Apple II family.

MAME's archive file handling has been improved in a number of ways.
ZIP64 format is now supported, allowing MAME to archives over 4GiB
in size. This mean that, for example, large flyer collections don't
need to be unzipped for use with the internal UI. 7zip support has
been updated for the latest 7zip release, including new archive
features and many bug fixes. We've also fixed a number of bugs in
the internal file browser.

Of course this release also includes many other improvements from
the MAME team and external contributors.

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Update mame to 0.172.

It's with great pleasure that we announce the release of MAME 0.172.
This release includes several notable things above and beyond the
usual assortment of new systems, new features, and bug fixes.

Most importantly, this is the first release of MAME since the change
to a proper open-source licensing scheme as announced earlier this
month. From this release onward, MAME will be distributed under a
GPL-2.0+ license, with the bulk of code being covered under a
3-clause BSD license.

MAME now has an up-to-date set of documentation! You can find it
under the "Documentation" drop-down at the top of this site, or go
to http://docs.mamedev.org/ to check it out.

Due to the large number of configuration changes made in this
version, we strongly advise all users to delete their existing INI
configuration files and re-create them using the "-cc" option.

In case you are just overwriting previous release files note that
you better remove plugin folder first

For those of you running MAME on authentic CRT monitors, MAME now
incorporates a number of scaling-related features from GroovyMAME,
thanks to its author being brought on board the team, which should
help reduce user fragmentation. Please note: If you have issues
with MAME 0.172's graphics output, please ensure that "unevenstretch"
is set to 1 in your MAME configuration.

MAME 0.172 will also introduce a new high-score saving system using
Lua scripting. The feature is still experimental, but it's something
to keep an eye on for interesting future developments!

This version additionally marks the creation of a cross-platform
data-driven shader system via the BGFX renderer, which allows you
to apply shader effects per-screen, and more.

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