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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

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mame: fix build on Darwin

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mame: adapt patch after discussion

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mame: add upstream bug report comment

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revbump after icu and protobuf updates

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mame: bump required gcc version

Log message:
mame: update to 0.265.

It’s time for our very special MAME 0.265 release! April has seen
development across numerous areas. MAME now has support for touch
screens on Linux and Windows 8 or later, opening up new possibilities
for interactive artwork. If you have a suitable multi-touch screen,
you can now play chords on systems with on-screen piano keyboards.
Check the documentation for specifics on how touch differs from
mouse control in menus. You’ll need to turn on the enable_touch
option to use touch screen support on Linux.

A pair of 1970s portable computers from IBM are now emulated in
MAME: the IBM 5100 and IBM 5110. Based on a heavily microcoded
16-bit architecture, these systems ran APL software by emulating
a System/360 mainframe and BASIC software by emulating a System/3
business system (ancestors of IBM Z and IBM i, respectively). Prior
to the introduction of the IBM 5100, APL was exclusive to large
mainframe computers. A self-contained 25 kg system running APL as
well as BASIC was revolutionary.

You can now plug a virtual Super Game Module into your emulated
ColecoVision, adding more RAM and better sound output. Many titles
from the vibrant ColecoVision homebrew development community require
or make use of the Super Game Module. There’s also a big update to
the ColecoVision software lists, including lots of homebrew software
to try out. Other software list additions this month include one
of the remaining Bandai RX-78 game cartridges, two more GameKing
III games, a batch of MSX2 floppy disks, and the latest Apple II
floppy disk dumps.

Of course, we haven’t stopped working on arcade game emulation.
For the first time, you can play Konami’s Tokimeki Memorial Oshiete
Your Heart games. These spin-offs of the popular dating simulation
series used heart rate and galvanic skin resistance sensors and
printed the results from your game. What appears to be an early
version of Visco’s Kokontouzai Eto Monogatari drop puzzle game has
been found and dumped. This version has much less content in the
data ROM and a smaller program. Another rare find dumped this month
is a production version of the CES Galaxy Games StarPak 4 multi-game
cartridge.

Other improvements this month include serial console support for
the KIM-1 hobbyist computer and an option to use one binary file
per track when extracting CHD CD-ROM images.