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- Release 03-06-1996 version 0.10a
-
- God, it's two days before the exams and what am I doing!!!
-
- Well, as you can see, I've been doing the wrong things. No matter - I'm ready
- for English and Maths but not Accounting, Physics or Chemistry ...
-
- So, what's changed? Well, a lot.
-
- * !Tornado now is more structured on the insides
- * TShell hacked into a form which works with the current kernel - most of the
- code isn't in this module - like all the multitasking stuff :(
- * TKernel has been so modified it's scary - should be very few bugs now -
- especially as I've disabled the entire garbaging routine - why it's buggy, I
- don't know but since I've disabled it it's been a world of help.
- * Relocatable module support has been implemented, including
- Tornado_Register, Tornado_Function and *TModules
- * The first relocatable module has been written, TTiming - TTimingT is a demo
- of it
- * !TornWin is now much faster, and more of it works (less too!). Yes, yes, I
- know the scroll arrows don't work, the redraws aren't reliable and sometimes
- it loses track of the mouse pointer - but it isn't a priority ATM.
- * I've laid out the renderer protocols, ready for creating the window
- rendering module.
-
- Okay, so maybe it isn't all that much! But we're a good bit closer to getting
- things to multitask!
-
- TTiming on my machine slows it awfully - I'll have to change it to use a
- worse resolution - right now you can visually see it slowing things down. Any
- improvements on the handling code welcomed!
-
- Also, anyone who wants to do their bit - here's your chance. I'll be looking
- for people to write the following soon:
-
- * Kernel's graphic routines (not nice!)
- * Kernel's filing system (ranges from easy to very hard, depending on the way
- you do it)
-
- Anyone who wants to volunteer, please do! ;) - I'll pass on the hooks you'll
- need to fill.
-
-
- Anyone who wants to try crashing anything, please try. I've tried
- exhaustively, and failed. Although I must admit it does lock up every now and
- again, although I'd suggest that may not be tornado's fault (try RISC-OS).
- Tornado is already using some dubious methods to get around RO shortcomings -
- not my fault!
-
- Finally
- -=-=-=-
- Finally, if you haven't heard yet, there's a web site at
- http://www.armature.net.au/~tornado/. I have half updated pages here, and
- I'll get around to them sometime.
-
- Also, I have a summer job with Protechnic software in Cambridge this summer.
- Thanks are also due to those others who offered me a job but I wasn't able to
- take it.
-
- I'll be in London from the 25th June to possibly the 30th - I may also be at
- the DDBank meet on that Saturday. If I am, I look forward to seeing you!
-
- Humm - anything else? Oh - it may well be that Protechnic won't let me use
- their computers after work - if this is the case I'll try to make other
- arrangements, but that failing I may go offline. I'll still keep at tornado
- though. ;)
-
- And that, AFAICS, is pretty much that. Let me know what you think!
-
- Cheers,
- Niall
-