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As a child of the $PAST in the UK, I lived in three overlapping Internet worlds. Acorn RISC OS 3, Mac OS 7.5 at home and increasing amounds of Windows 95/98. T
by afandian 6y ago
As a child of the $PAST in the UK, I lived in three overlapping Internet worlds. Acorn RISC OS 3, Mac OS 7.5 at home and increasing amounds of Windows 95/98.
The Acorn ecosystem was way ahead until it suddenly wasn't. But my first webppage in about 1996 was made on an Acorn machine and, as far as I recall, the text was antialiased back then.
- MattBlissett 6y agoHere are some screenshots of RISC OS 3, including the anti-aliased fonts [1]. In 1992, on a 640x480 CRT, fonts rendered on RISC OS were excellent. Losing this when I switched to Windows around 1995 was a big step backwards. NB if viewing on a HiDPI screen, the browser will blur the image at it scales it for the webpage. Instead, look at [2] and zoom the page to 50% -- that's exactly how I remember it, except half the size. [1] https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/#text https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/#text [2] https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/Text--AA-sub-pixel.png https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/Text--AA-sub-pixel.png