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Discussion (16 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews

tomduncalf•about 2 hours ago
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
msephton•about 2 hours ago
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.
fidotron•about 2 hours ago
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.

junto•about 3 hours ago
Brings back good memories of playing fun games with my siblings.

Our first computer was an Acorn BBC B Microcomputer.

Kim_Bruning•about 3 hours ago
My browser had this down as a phising site? The actual content seems fine though.
themadturk•about 2 hours ago
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.
ochrist•about 3 hours ago
Same here (Firefox on Windows). But when I opened it in Firefox on my Android phone, it seems fine.
LargoLasskhyfv•about 3 hours ago
Confirm via uBo. Didn't bother with content because of that.
Kim_Bruning•about 3 hours ago
Actually parts of the content aren't loading, probably also due to it being listed? Strange though! I wonder what happened?
nateb2022•about 3 hours ago
Looks like the source is on PhishTank: https://www.phishtank.net/phish_detail.php?phish_id=9419370
pona-a•about 1 hour ago
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.
kybernetikos•about 2 hours ago
I think fireworkz pro was the next evolution of the concept.
repelsteeltje•about 2 hours ago
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.

iamcalledrob•about 1 hour ago
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 :)

2b3a51•21 minutes ago
Quote from the article we are commenting on...

"Everything you set up to customize the system, like desktop icons, window positions, desktop resolution, and other settings is reset every boot unless you manually tell the system to save the current state as the "boot file.""

OS in ROM so of course no state could be saved except as a file on a floppy disk. ROM based systems have certain advantages when working with classes of investigative and curious teenagers.

Hard drives came a bit later; there was a retrofit of a Rodime 20 Mb drive that fitted into one of the podules on the back of the A310, and had its drivers in an updated system ROM. Good times.