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Well, it's now over two years since tornado was first named as it is now.
From its beginnings, tornado has kept evolving - right up to the present day.
The incarnations of tornado up to now, referred to collectively as tornado I,
were complex assembler written beasties which really pushed my assembler
writing skills to the limit. They also took a hell of a lot of time, which is
why you never saw much of tornado - despite its press coverage a long time
ago in AU editorial pages.
Tornado II - conceived since the middle of summer 1996 - is a very different
concept. It retains its original goals and methodologies, but is now at home
in environments very alien to the RISC-OS one - the most obvious being its
current development environment, Microsoft Windows. However, this is by no
means to say tornado II cannot be ported back to RISC-OS and run perfectly
well there.
To that end though, the facilities lacking in RISC-OS that are available on
Win32 (the 32 bit environment within latest versions of Windows) need to be
available for tornado II to sucessfully run on RISC-OS - and here is the
beginnings of them in the form of a RISC-OS tornado II support module.
The tornado support module, in common with tornado writing methodologies, is
not for only the exclusive use of tornado II, but has also been made
available for other RISC-OS Wimp applications to use. The facilities this
module provides may or may not be of use to many programmers - but many will
and that is why this documentation has been made available.
I hope you find a use for this module. It has the capability of helping the
RISC-OS desktop move from the rut it has been stuck in for a long time now,
and I would urge you to at least think about using it. Enclosed are example
pieces of code using the support module in a RISC-OS context and their
sources are also enclosed. I hope this will be adequate - if not I can also
still be contacted by email and asked.
Niall Douglas
07-12-1996
Web: http://www.armature.net.au/~tornado
Email: tornado@armature.net.au