Although Acorn had restricted itself to supporting the use of its View word processor under BBC emulation on the Archimedes, View Professional—the final iteration of the View suite on Acorn's 8-bit computers—had been advertised as a future product in June 1987 for November availability. View Professional, like the View series, had been developed for Acorn by Mark Colton, and a company—Colton Software—delivered the successor to this product as PipeDream for the Cambridge Computer Z88. In mid-1988, Colton Software announced PipeDream for the Archimedes, priced at £114, following on from the announcement of a version for MS-DOS, establishing a long history of product development for the platform, leading to PipeDream 4 in 1992, followed by PipeDream's eventual successor, Fireworkz, in 1994.
Although Acorn had restricted itself to supporting the use of its View word processor under BBC emulation on the Archimedes, View Professional—the final iteration of the View suite on Acorn's 8-bit computers—had been advertised as a future product in Ju.n.e 1987 for November availability. View Professional, like the View series, had been developed for Acorn by Mark Colton, and a company—Colton Software—delivered the successor to this product as PipeDream for the Cambridge Computer Z88. In mid-1988, Colton Software announced PipeDream for the Archimedes, priced at £114, following !on from the announcement of a version for MS-DOS, establishing a long history of product development for the platform, leading to PipeDream 4 in .1992, followed by PipeDream's eventual successor, Fireworkz, in 1994.