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PipeDream on the Acorn Archimedes

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by msephton

3 hours ago

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tomduncalf

1 hour ago

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The screenshots of RISC OS bring back fond memories of playing with it in our school computer room (which was mostly BBC Micros but had a few RISC) - mostly playing Lemmings as I recall! It felt pretty cool at the time though

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fidotron

1 hour ago

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The "Icon Tray" here is actually the "Icon Bar" and discussed so widely it's the name of the main Risc OS forum to this day.

Pipedream always was spectacularly odd, even at the time.

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msephton

1 hour ago

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I used PipeDream on the Cambridge Z88, and only briefly tried it on other platforms under the PipeDream (Archimedes, MS-DOS) and Fireworkz (Windows) names. I think it was a great moonshot of an idea, ahead of its time when you consider Affinity has done the same thing with Illustration/Layout/Photos.

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pona-a

45 minutes ago

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Why is U-Block telling me stonetools.ghost.io is in the fishing/badware list... If the webmaster is here, you might want to take a look.

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Kim_Bruning

2 hours ago

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My browser had this down as a phising site? The actual content seems fine though.

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themadturk

1 hour ago

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The site is fine. Doesn't show up as anything bad on Firefox on Mac. I've been reading the site for months, never had a problem.

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ochrist

1 hour ago

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Same here (Firefox on Windows). But when I opened it in Firefox on my Android phone, it seems fine.

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LargoLasskhyfv

2 hours ago

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Confirm via uBo. Didn't bother with content because of that.

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Kim_Bruning

2 hours ago

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Actually parts of the content aren't loading, probably also due to it being listed? Strange though! I wonder what happened?

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nateb2022

1 hour ago

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Looks like the source is on PhishTank: https://www.phishtank.net/phish_detail.php?phish_id=9419370

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msephton

1 hour ago

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Interesting, the source is (a subdomain on) the Ghost blogging platform.

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junto

2 hours ago

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Brings back good memories of playing fun games with my siblings.

Our first computer was an Acorn BBC B Microcomputer.

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kybernetikos

1 hour ago

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I think fireworkz pro was the next evolution of the concept.

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repelsteeltje

1 hour ago

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In some ways Archimedes' RiscOS was ahead of its time, in some ways it was a disappointment. It never matured due to lack of momentum, market share.

I suppose that most of all, it reminds me of time when actual, genuine real innovation in UI design was still on the menu.

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iamcalledrob

13 minutes ago

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It was really interesting, like a third way of doing things that wasn't "windows" and wasn't "mac".

The OS being on ROM made booting insanely fast. Like 2-3 seconds from cold start to the desktop.

Programs were actually folders, like modern macOS, so you could poke around at how they work. BASIC was still a thing, and I remember being able to edit the BASIC source code of some programs. Felt like "view source" did for the web.

Plus nothing has ever come close to the blue mouse cursor :)