PipeDream 3 Resurrection

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Stuart Swales

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Oct 1, 2022, 6:18:54 AM10/1/22

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Don’t like toolbars? Want applications that take up less memory? PipeDream 4 doesn’t work on your ancient RISC OS 2 system? I have recently unearthed PipeDream 3.10 from May 1990…

PipeDream 3.10a
This has been built from the PipeDream 3.10 source with a couple of modifications:
1. Identifies itself as PipeDream 3.10a in the Info box
2. Menus insert a ‘^’ before the shortcut key sequence to right-align on RISC OS 3.5 (and later)
3. Updated dialogue boxes towards modern Style Guide appearance (32-bit version only)
4. Calls SWI Portable_Idle when printing to screen (32-bit version only)

There’s a ‘modern’ 32-bit build (using DDE30d) and a ‘classic’ 26-bit build (largely using C Release 3.1B) – both from the same source :-). If you feel inclined to peruse it, the source is there in Git.

Head on over to https://sourceforge.net/projects/coltonsoftwarepipedream/ where you can also find more archaic artifacts to use with emulators or stone-age systems.

http://www.croftnuisk.co.uk/coltsoft-downloads/pipedream/PipeDream3/PipeDream3_3_10_1.zip

http://www.croftnuisk.co.uk/coltsoft-downloads/pipedream/PipeDream3/PipeDream3-26_3_10_1.zip (26-bit)

I’ve put links to these and a note in the usual place: https://croftnuisk.co.uk/coltsoft/pipedream/downloads/

Why not the ultimate, PD 3.14? Well, I don’t have that source! I think that the only differences from 3.10 were that we added German and Swedish translations and changed the Spell module to allow creation of non-English dictionaries.