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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
-