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*: Recursive revbump from audio/flac-1.5.0

Log message:
mame: update to 0.274.

Today’s the day you get to experience MAME 0.274 for the first
time! As previously mentioned, our Windows binary releases now
require a CPU with x86-64-v2 functionality. The most anticipated
feature completed this month is almost certainly the 64-bit ARMv8
recompiler back-end. It’s been tested on macOS, conventional Linux
and Android, and provides some very welcome performance improvements
when emulating systems with RISC CPUs, including MIPS III, PowerPC
and SuperH. In addition to the new back-end, we’ve fixed some bugs
in the existing back-ends and made some performance improvements
for x86-64. Keep in mind that the actual performance benefits you
experience will vary substantially depending on your CPU and the
emulated system and software.

While that was happening, emulation work continued to progress.
This release adds support for numerous digital pets, a couple more
Tronica LCD games, and several synthesisers. Several CD-i graphics
formats have been fixed, and speaking of Philips, video emulation
for their Minitel 2 terminal has been improved as well. Our NEC
µPD17771C emulation has been completely overhauled, which is
particularly noticeable in Star Speeder on the Epoch Super Cassette
Vision.

Lots has been going on in computer emulation this month. We’ve
taken a few steps along the road to emulating the first-generation
Power Macintosh systems; the Heath/Zenith computers now have
hard-sectored floppy formats and working joystick support; the JUKU
E5104 now has mouse support; the Silicon Graphics Professional IRIS
4D workstations are now considered working. There’s also been some
work on Amiga graphics emulation, although some of the improvements
missed this release.

Log message:
mame: update to 0.273.

It looks like MAME 0.273 has made it just in time for the end of
2024! First of all, if you want to build MAME with Microsoft’s IDE,
you’ll need to switch to Visual Studio 2022 and ensure you have an
up-to-date version of the Visual C++ compiler. (There’s lots more
useful information about building MAME from source code on the
relevant documentation page.)

Microcontrollers for Sun Electronics Kangaroo and Data East E.D.F.:
Earth Defense Force have been dumped and emulated. This fixes
several issues where the simulation was incorrect for Kangaroo,
affecting gameplay and sound. Speaking of which, there have been
quite a few fixes for sound issues in arcade games this month.

Regional variants of the Apple II computer line allowed the user
to switch between US English mode and local mode, affecting the
display character set and the keyboard layout. This release greatly
improves support for language selection and adds support for several
European Apple IIe and Apple IIc variants. In other Apple emulation
news, the ’030-based PowerBook series is coming to life: you might
want to try out the PowerBook 140, 160, 170 and 180 or variants
thereof.

There’s lots more in this release, including more Amiga sound and
video cards, CPU emulation fixes, and better DMA behaviour for
emulated Sound Blaster cards.

Log message:
mame: update to 0.272.

The end of the year is almost upon us, but before that happens,
make sure you try MAME 0.272! We’re very happy to announce that
the early SNK game Tangram Q is now supported. This game was never
widespread, and working examples are rarer than ever. MAME now
gives you the unprecedented opportunity to experience this piece
of gaming history. Another obscure system that’s starting to take
shape is the Estonian EKTA Juku. This 8-bit educational computer
was powered by a Soviet 8080 clone and ran the CP/M-derived EKDOS
operating system.

The French Thomson computers have been receiving some attention
lately, and software compatibility is starting to improve. Progress
on the NEC PC-98 family is still coming along nicely. Our CD-ROM
drive emulation has been getting better, which has a positive impact
on numerous computers as well as game systems. The Epoch Super
Cassette vision also got some nice fixes this month.

Numerous reported issues were fixed in this release, including some
long-standing issues that had eluded developers for years. There
are lots of new working bootleg arcade games to try out. Several
TV games have been promoted to working this month, too.

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*: recursive bump for icu 76 shlib major version bump

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*: revbump for icu downgrade

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*: recursive bump for icu 76.1 shlib bump

Log message:
mame: fix build on Darwin