[AROS-Announce] Status update

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Michael Schulz is back and has begun to work on an abstract Mouse.HIDD fo=
r AROS
x86/Native. Georg Steger finished porting of reqtools.library and ports n=
ow all
the reqtools utilities (prefs program) and updated all AROS programs whic=
h use
reqtools (for example, MultiView and the text.datatype). He also fixed a =
few
bugs in diskfont.library and FixFonts, in Intuition and Gadtools.  Adam
Chodorowski is working on LoadWB.  Johan Alfredsson and Stefan Berger hav=
e
finished more and more CLI commands. Henning Kiel is working together
with the author of plex86 to make AROS work with plex86. AROS boots
but it crashes soon after.

Joerg Dietrich committed a ppm.datatype (for PPM pictures).
Tobias Seiler fixed a long standing bug in the keyboard initialization
of AROS Native/i386, so PS/2 keyboards should work now.

Georg Steger finished gadtools.library. Cool Work ! He also fixed some
bugs in the graphics.library-to-HIDD driver.

Johan Alfredsson finished his nonvolatile.library.

Georg Steger committed rewritten routines for the DOS functions
MatchFirst(), MatchNext() and MatchEnd(). These should work in all
cases, now. This fixes all those pety bugs like <TT>List C:</TT>.

Joerg Dietrich committed dtdesc, a tool to create and examine DataType
descriptors. Georg Steger improved the building of the FTXT Datatype with
it. Later that day, Joerg backported our binary.datatype to AmigaOS 3.5.

Johan Alfredsson ported the C:Search utility written by Neil Cafferkey
to AROS. Georg Steger renamed our OO Routines into something more
easily distinguishable from BOOPSI (our OO system also used DoMethod(), e=
tc.
which could cause confusions).

AROS runs on Bochs now, if a bit slow. Georg Steger, who fixed the
last bugs, added a README.Bochs how to make it work. Right now,
he's trying to make AROS work with plex86.

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