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Twenty years, but apparently no screenshots. How can they be serious about making a graphical operating system with no screenshots anywhere on their web site?
by Kwpolska 2mo ago
Twenty years, but apparently no screenshots. How can they be serious about making a graphical operating system with no screenshots anywhere on their web site?
- virtue3 2mo agothere are plenty of screenshots in the user guide: https://www.riscosopen.org/zipfiles/platform/common/UserGuide.5.30.pdf?1712325882 https://www.riscosopen.org/zipfiles/platform/common/UserGuid...
- lproven 2mo agoI think the assumption is that if you're interested in the source or contributing, you already know what it looks like. There are loads of galleries and walkthroughs out there. Here's v3.11 from 1992: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos311 https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos311 Here's the more modern 3.7 from 1996: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos37 https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos37 An annotated walkthrough the GUI: https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/ https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/
- iamcalledrob 2mo agoLook at that subpixel antialiased text in 3.7. So, so far ahead of it's time.
- lproven 2mo agoFirst OS with built-in scalable font rendering as standard. First OS with full-window dragging as standard (instead of an outline). First OS with a taskbar/dock as standard.