Log message:
mame: update to 0.260.

MAME 0.260

Some long-anticipated updates landed in October, making MAME 0.260
a very exciting release! Firstly, there are some general updates
to MAME itself. After a few false starts, MAME now supports bgfx
video output with Wayland on Linux. As requested by users, you can
finally use delta CHD files for clone systems and software items.
This allows for major disk space savings in some cases when you
have multiple versions of a system or software item. There’s also
an updated version of PortAudio included.

Two very different systems from Casio have been promoted to working
this month. The first is the CZ-101 compact keyboard synthesiser.
It used Phase Distortion Synthesis, which was Casio’s patent-avoiding
answer to Yamaha’s DX series. To help you load patches, MAME can
now feed SysEx files to emulated MIDI input ports. The other is
the Loopy, a game console released exclusively in Japan and marketed
primarily to girls. While sound output, the sticker printer, and
the frame grabber accessory are not emulated (yet), you can try
out the system’s entire library of eleven software titles.

Several Korean arcade games were added this month, including a
Solitaire card game from F2 System that uses a dedicated control
panel and features some rather disturbing pre-rendered 3D animations.
A few Merit games were added as well. Other improvements include
more emulated NuBus and PDS cards for Macs, Cumana DFS disk image
support for the Acorn Electron, and support for an MSX Flash
cartridge.

MAME 0.259

It looks like MAME 0.259 just squeaked in before the end of September!
As usual, it’s packed with exciting stuff. One thing we know some
of you have been patiently waiting for is emulation of Namco System
12 games using the CDXA board and CD-ROM storage: Truck Kyosokyoku
and the interesting but unsuccessful Um Jammer Lammy NOW! The work
to support these games also puts us in a better position to support
systems that use SH-2 CPUs with different combinations of onboard
peripherals. Also added this month are two Konami LCD games, Bandai’s
two-player tabletop U-Boat game, and three arcade games on dgPix
hardware.

On a completely different front, VME-based systems in MAME have
had a major overhaul. The system of backplanes and cards is more
faithfully reproduced. Speaking of cards, another ZXBUS storage
interface card has been emulated for enhanced ZX Spectrum derivatives
with a suitable slot. In other card-related news, work on PC video
cards is still progressing, with the added benefit of fixing
MegaTouch XL 6000 graphics this month. While we’re talking about
graphics, the Sharp X68000 had a few glitches fixed, too.

Initial support for built-in Ethernet has been implemented for
several Macintosh Quadra systems, and some bugs in the onboard
video emulation for MC68040-based Macs were fixed. Also in Apple
news, the Apple III now runs at a more realistic speed, and there’s
been a little progress on the first-generation PowerMac family.

MAME now has support for hard-sectored floppy formats, which were
a thing back in the days of big 8" drives, and a few issues with
how TD0 format disk images are handled were fixed. Also related to
floppy disks, the poorly-received TIB Disc Drive DD-001 that attached
to the Commodore 64’s cartridge port is now emulated. Finally,
players curious about CPS-2 games can now twiddle the debugging
DIP switches that were apparently present on development systems.

Log message:
Recursive revbump for new ABI major version of converters/utf8proc

Log message:
mame: update to 0.258.

Yes, it’s time for another release: MAME 0.258! It’s been another
month of exciting Apple updates. Several low-cost Macintosh computers
with 68040 CPUs are now supported, and there are fixes for some
issues with sound playback. For earlier Macintosh computers, there
are two new floppy disk software lists: one for original dumps and
one containing low-impact cracks. Support for early CD-ROM drives
has been improved, allowing early multimedia software for the Apple
II and Macintosh to run. There are also a few Apple III fixes in
there.

Moving on to other computers, Silicon Graphics workstation support
is still making progress. This month, the Personal IRIS 4D family
have been promoted to working. The ZX Spectrum family has been
further filled out with another enhanced clone from Scorpion, Ltd.
Work is continuing on various PC video and sound cards, allowing
software that uses more of their advanced features to run. This
month, you may notice better sampled sound playback when using the
Sound Blaster ISA card. In some cases, software that would previously
hang when playing sounds now works properly.

Two quiz games running on Namco’s System 12 are now working: Derby
Quiz My Dream Horse, and Kaiun Quiz. A version of The Legend of
Kage with different sound hardware has been added, as well as a
location test version of Dogyuun and a version of Makaimura (released
internationally as Ghosts’n Goblins) that fits in between two of
the previously supported versions. Although it doesn’t provide much
in the way of gameplay, Sega’s Wanpaku Safari ride, based on Saturn
hardware, has been dumped and added.

Log message:
mame: Couple of little fixes for NetBSD

Log message:
mame: Bump required GCC version as a workaround.

Log message:
mame: Unlimit all the things, this is one of the hugest binaries in pkgsrc.

Log message:
*: recursive bump for Python 3.11 as new default

Log message:
mame: Explicitly disable some dependencies that are not explicitly included

Log message:
*: Instead of using BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM to force a "gnu" language
variant when a package is using GNU extensions without setting
-std=gnuXX, use FORCE_(C|CXX)_STD.

Log message:
mame: update to 0.257.

Well, it’s the end of another month, meaning MAME 0.257 is about
due! First of all, you might notice there are some big software
list updates this month. There are quite a few ZX Spectrum cassettes
and a pile of MSX cartridges. There’s also a boatload of original
Apple II floppy disk dumps, including plenty of Infocom, MECC,
Stickybear and Timeout titles. More 3.5" disks for 8-bit Apple II
computers are being dumped now, so make sure you have your emulated
drives set up properly if you want to try them out. Speaking of
Apple, Macintosh computers with 68040 CPUs are starting to reach
working status in MAME. Get ready to relive the confusing array of
Quadra, Centris and LC models from the early 1990s.

For many years, Capcom’s Avengers was an enigma. It was obvious
that substantial parts of the game’s logic don’t run on the main
CPU, but how it was actually implemented was a long-standing mystery.
It turns out the cheeky boys at Capcom put an 8751 microcontroller
under the sound module on the circuit board, and no-one noticed it
hiding there until Phil Bennett spotted it last year! Since then,
a microcontroller was sourced, and the internal program was
exfiltrated by Caps0ff. Unfortunately, the data was damaged slightly,
but it’s now running in MAME with a patch. This allowed the old
simulation code to be removed, providing a better representation
of the game’s original logic.

If you’ve been following updates this year, you might have noticed
the activity around the 16-bit Psion handheld computers. Quite a
few have been promoted to working this month, including several
Series 3 clamshell PDAs and the Workabout data entry terminal.
Naturally, there’s a software list for Psion Solid State Disk media
for you to try out. From the same corner of the world, MAME gained
support for the Bellfruit “Black Box” electromechanical gambling
machine platform. Although the games are marked as not working,
you can spin the reels without having to worry about losing your
shirt.

There’s lots more in this release, ranging from an overhaul for
Taito’s Change Lanes, to support for building against Qt 6 on Linux.