Log message:
emulators: Adapt packages (where possible) to USE_(CC|CXX)_FEATURES

Log message:
mame: update to 0.256.

Yes, it’s already time for MAME 0.256, our midyear release! Several
very rare and exciting things have turned up this month. Remember
that rally racing game Top Driving that was added last month? This
month, Mortal Race, an earlier, rarer game based on the same codebase
has been found and dumped. The rare Gamate cartridge Mighty Boxer
has finally been tracked down and dumped, which means all Gamate
games known to have been released are accounted for. Taiko no
Tatsujin RT: Nippon no Kokoro has been dumped, bringing us closer
to completing the Namco System 10 collection. This offshoot of the
popular series was designed for venues like hospitals and aged care
facilities. It doesn’t accept coins, and it features easier songs.
Four more versions of the prototype arcade game Turbo Sub have also
been dumped and added.

For computers, there are lots of software list additions, particularly
for MSX and ZX Spectrum. The Heathkit H89 now has enough functionality
emulated to be marked working. You can now add ROM cards to your
emulated Apple II computers, and FLEX now works on the TRS Color
Computer family.

There are also lots of emulation improvements, including fixes for
a few more Taito F3 graphical glitches, and better graphics layer
mixing on Sharp X68000. Behind the scenes, we’ve been working on
support for wait states in the MOS 6502 and Hitachi H8 CPU families
and there have been some changes to streamline the code.

Log message:
Mass-change BUILD_DEPENDS to TOOL_DEPENDS outside mk/.

Almost all uses, if not all of them, are wrong, according to the
semantics of BUILD_DEPENDS (packages built for target available for
use _by_ tools at build-time) and TOOL_DEPEPNDS (packages built for
host available for use _as_ tools at build-time).

No change to BUILD_DEPENDS as used correctly inside buildlink3.

As proposed on tech-pkg:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2023/06/03/msg027632.html

Log message:
mame: update to 0.255.

As you may have expected, it’s MAME 0.255 release day! Following
on from April’s breakthroughs, Namco System 10 MP3 audio is now
supported, making Golgo 13: Juusei no Requiem, Seishun Quiz Colorful
High School and Nice Tsukkomi fully playable. On top of that, Point
Blank 3 and Gunbalina now run, and the later version of Gamshara
has been dumped correctly. If you like rhythm games, more than half
a dozen Pop'n Music titles are now working. Lots of LCD and LED
games were added this month, including two Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles games from Konami, Super Goal Keeper from Tronica, and two
sports-themed games from Tomy.

Remember the Motorola 88000 CPU architecture? It’s OK if you don’t,
it never achieved the same market penetration as its rivals MIPS,
SPARC and POWER. But that makes it really cool that two Omron
workstations based on 88100 CPUs, the Luna 88K and Luna 88K², are
now working. This release also adds support for the Psion HC 100
series of hand-held computers from the early 1990s. These devices
found their niche as portable data collection terminals. Support
for the ZX Spectrum’s many descendants continues to grow, with the
Sprinter Sp2000 arriving this month.

Of course, there are lots of other changes, including software list
additions, bug fixes and general emulation improvements.

Log message:
*: Recursive revbump from audio/libopus 1.4

Log message:
mame: update to 0.254.

MAME 0.254, the most hotly anticipated emulator release in recent
memory, is ready today! Yes, it finally happened: the first batch
of Namco System 10 games have been emulated! It’s been a real team
effort, with contributors around the world working on emulation,
cracking encryption, and properly dumping the Flash memory chips.
You’ll be able to enjoy Namco’s Mr. Driller 2 and Mr. Driller G,
as well as the spin-off Star Trigon. System 10 was home to Mitchell’s
final two arcade games, Gamshara and Kono e Tako. From Metro, there
are two GAHAHA Ippatsudou mini-game collections and the two-in-one
mahjong tile puzzle game GekiToride-Jong Space. Other working Namco
games include Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan, Panikuru Panekuru, and
Uchuu Daisakusen: Chocovader Contactee.

Quite a few of the System 10 games that are still marked as not
working are already playable. Taiko no Tatsujin 2, 4 and 6 are
playable, although we aren’t confident enough in the timing accuracy
of MAME’s PlayStation emulation to mark rhythm games as working at
the moment. You can play the light gun shooter Golgo 13: Juusei no
Requiem, but it’s missing sounds and voice acting at the moment.
Several coin pushers on the closely related WIDEISM SP-02 platform
run; you can trigger various animations, but there’s no gameplay
as such.

Of course, Namco System 10 emulation isn’t the only thing that’s
updated in this release. Almost a dozen Yamaha keyboards based on
the GEW7 CPU are now working. Interestingly, their sound synthesis
capabilities are closely related to the MultiPCM chip used in
various Sega arcade games. Another game from SNK’s early Micon Kit
series has been dumped and emulated. There are also two more working
Brother word processors and two working Liberty Electronics serial
terminals.

Cave CV1000 games now have more realistic blitter performance,
meaning you don’t need to tweak settings to get close to the arcade
experience. Properly emulating the absence of a memory management
unit in the R4650 CPU used by Namco’s System 23 solves crashes in
Time Crisis 2. Some fixes in SGI workstation emulation have IRIX
running again. A few bugs affecting PC Engine and Virtual Boy games
have been fixed. Issues with certain sound effects in classic Konami
arcade games have been fixed, too.

Log message:
revbump after textproc/icu update

Log message:
mame: update to 0.253.

It’s time for MAME 0.253, but before we start talking about all
the exciting updates, there are a couple of things that will affect
people compiling or packaging MAME. Firstly, libc++ 6 is no longer
supported. You can still compile with clang 6, but you’ll need to
use libc++ 7 or later, or GNU libstdc++ 7 or later, for the C++
standard library. Secondly, MAME now requires Lua compiled as C++
to work correctly. This prevents the use of Lua libraries from
Linux distribution package repositories, as they are compiled as
C. (The technical reason for this change is that MAME requires C++
stack frames to be unwound correctly, including destructor calls,
when Lua errors are raised from C++ code. Using Lua compiled as C
will cause resource leaks.)

We’ve updated to Lua 5.4, which comes with an all-new garbage
collector, giving better performance. This should have minimal
impact on people writing scripts and plugins. Two of the biggest
visible changes are that unpack has been replaced with table.unpack
and the deprecated bitlib has been removed. While we’re talking
about Lua, we’d like to draw your attention to the new MAME Goodies
repository, where we’ll be adding additional content for use with
MAME. So far, there are two plugins. One of them is sure to be
useful for fans of Konami’s arcade rhythm games. They also serve
as example code for people looking to learn about some of the things
you can do with MAME’s Lua scripting capabilities.

The long-rumoured microcode-based Motorola 68000 CPU core is finally
here! It’s already delivering results, with a number of previously
out-of-reach Atari ST demos now running. We’ve done some intensive
testing, but there are probably still regressions lurking. Let us
know if one of your favourite 68k-based games flakes out on you.

One of the more interesting systems to be dumped and emulated this
month is Akazukin, a 1983 arcade game where you shoot wolves preying
on a defenceless girl. There’s also a game bearing the rather
generic title Heroes, an early version of Data East’s Mutant Fighter.
We’ve added a few more electronic toys to play with, including Race
Time from Bandai, Punch Your Lights Out from Tiger, and a trio of
backgammon and chess games from Tryom. If you’re in a more serious
mood, the Brother LW-30 and LW-840ic dedicated word processors are
now supported. The Sony NWS-3410 UNIX workstation is now working
(albeit without its frame buffer, so you’ll need to use a serial
terminal), as is the ironically named Vector 4 S-100 bus computer
(Vector Graphic never sold a system with vector graphics capabilities).

Building on the work in last month’s release, Hyper Neo Geo 64
games are looking better than ever. Numerous texturing and tilemap
issues have been resolved. Taito F3 video emulation has had several
effects fixed, with Land Maker in particular looking noticeably
better. Switching from video to sound, the KC 85 computer family
now has working audio output, some issues with looping and retriggered
samples on the Apple IIgs have been fixed, and fixes for PC Engine
CD audio playback issues have made some games go from crashing to
playable. More subtly, correcting audio chip clock frequencies has
fixed the pitch of sounds for several systems, including Snow Bros.
2 and Noboranka.

Log message:
mame: add upstream-upstream bug report URL

Log message:
mame: update to 0.252.

After almost two months, we’re ready to release MAME 0.252, the
first MAME release of 2023! As promised, there are some big updates,
and some of them may require you to make a few adjustments to your
MAME setups. In particular, the modules MAME uses to handle input
and output (e.g. video, sound and controllers) have been cleaned
up, fixing lots of bugs and resource leaks.

First of all, the BGFX video module has had a serious overhaul.
Numerous issues affecting artwork rendering have been fixed, and
toggling full-screen mode no longer crashes. MAME now saves many
BGFX video settings to your CFG files for each emulated system.

Game controller handling has also been overhauled. The downside is
that you may need to reconfigure inputs for MAME. The upside is
that things should work better out-of-the-box, with better default
input assignments for more controllers:

    For Windows users, more XInput controllers are fully supported,
    including guitars, the DJ Hero turntable, and the Rock Band
    keyboard.

    For people using SDL builds, like our lovely macOS and Linux
    users, there’s a brand new joystick input module using the SDL
    game controller API. This gives consistent assignments for
    popular gamepads, and allows you to supply your own button and
    axis assignment schemes if the defaults don’t suit you. If want
    the old behaviour, it’s still available: just set the
    joystickprovider setting to sdljoy in your mame.ini file.

    For everyone, it should be easier to navigate MAME’s UI using
    a game controller, and MAME should choose better default game
    input assignments for more gamepads.

Of course, we haven’t stopped working on emulation. Newly supported
systems include the NABU PC (a Canadian 8-bit home computer and
cable network terminal), the I-Star Chess King (a Taiwanese hand-held
chess computer of dubious quality), Computer Othello (one of
Nintendo’s earliest video games), YoYo Spell (a prototype of the
arcade game Little Robin), the very rare English language version
of SegaSonic Cosmo Fighter (dumped from the unit previously operated
at Sega World Sydney), and Saturn: Space Fighter 3D (a Space Invaders
variant from Data East).

The MSX updates haven’t stopped: this release includes support for
MSX-DOS2 and RAM expansion cartridges. The Hyper Neo Geo 64 has
had some welcome fixes for both 2D and 3D graphics, and there should
be more coming in the next release. At the other end of the spectrum,
Apple II video has seen a number of improvements, and somewhere in
between, S3 ViRGE reached a point where 256-colour mode works in
Windows 98.