---
- branch: MAIN
  date: Sat Dec  9 13:02:11 UTC 2023
  files:
  - new: '1.186'
    old: '1.185'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/mame/Makefile
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/mame/Makefile@1.186
    type: modified
  - new: '1.80'
    old: '1.79'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/mame/PLIST
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/mame/PLIST@1.80
    type: modified
  - new: '1.138'
    old: '1.137'
    path: pkgsrc/emulators/mame/distinfo
    pathrev: pkgsrc/emulators/mame/distinfo@1.138
    type: modified
  id: 20231209T130211Z.952f3538c8786a4b7e68adf31976ae993f65f762
  log: "mame: update to 0.261.\n\nMAME 0.261 will be the final MAME release of 2023,
    and it窶å\x86± a real\nripper! We窶å\x86³e ending the year with a bang! Over
    a hundred pull\nrequests were merged this month, including several from first-time\ncontributors
    as well as many familiar names. Following up on the\nwork last month, two more
    Casio Phase Distortion synthesisers have\nbeen added: the high-end CZ-1 keyboard
    and the unreleased MZ-1\nmodule. The Yamaha MU50 XG tone generator module is also
    working\na lot better in this release.\n\nTwo home consoles with drawing features
    are now working: LJN窶å\x86±\nVideoArt from 1987 and Sega窶å\x86± Advanced Pico
    BEENA from 2005. Although\nthey were both positioned as intellectually stimulating
    consoles\nfor children and both had drawing features, they couldn窶å\x86² be
    more\ndifferent. The VideoArt was universally derided for its poor controls\nand
    lack of entertainment value, drawing negative comparisons to\nthe popular Etch-a-Sketch
    toy. On the other hand, the BEENA was a\nhigh-quality device using media combining
    a ROM cartridge with a\npicture book, and featured dual pen digitisers. Its ARM
    CPU is\nfairly demanding to emulate in MAME, so you窶å\x86¤l need a fast PC to\nrun
    it at full speed. We窶å\x86³e aware that the current scans of the\npicture books
    are not perfect, but it窶å\x86± still quite usable apart\nfrom some peripherals
    that aren窶å\x86² emulated yet.\n\nOn a completely different note, some of the
    Taito gambling and\nmedal games have started to come to life. The purpose of the
    games\nis to separate you from your money, and there isn窶å\x86² much gameplay\nvalue,
    but they窶å\x86³e still interesting to see. Some of them feature\ncharacters
    from popular Taito franchises. Speaking of gambling\ngames, a couple of Chinese-language
    mahjong gambling games from\nBMC have been dumped.\n\nSystems with AVR8 CPUs now
    run up to 50% faster, including the\nUzebox console, Linus ï¾\x83�kesson demos,
    and the homebrew Sega Master\nSystem paddle controller. A means of dumping the
    microcontrollers\nJaleco used for protection in some Mega System 1 games has been\ndiscovered
    recently, allowing the protection simulation code to be\nretired for 64th St.
    - A Detective Story and Big Striker. Our\nunderstanding of the gate array protection
    used for some other\nJaleco games has also improved. The internal Super A'Can
    now has\nits main CPU窶å\x86± internal ROM hooked up properly, improving the\naccuracy
    of its boot process.\n\nOf course, there窶å\x86± far more in this release than
    we have time to\ntalk about here, including newly dumped Korean versions of arcade\ngames,
    bootlegs from Spain, support for PDS cards on the Mac\nQuadra/LC 630 family, more
    Heathkit Terminal Logic Board variants,\nand lots of new software list items.\n"
  module: pkgsrc
  subject: 'CVS commit: pkgsrc/emulators/mame'
  unixtime: '1702126931'
  user: wiz