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Forgotten Graphical Interfaces: the RISC OS GUI (acorn archimedes riscos gui interface) (telcontar.net)
8 points by viler 5 days ago | 3 comments


  • boofar 1 day ago
    > Most applications simply append an icon to the icon bar; the screenshot below shows the effect of launching !Edit, with the extra icon in the icon bar being the only clue that anything happened: This new icon in the icon bar has to be clicked to cause the program to appear.

    This little idiosyncrasy confused me copiously when first trying RiscOS.

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  • bmonkey325 4 days ago
    Very much an OG Windows feels. Especially the font.
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    • viler 4 days ago
      I get more Amiga-ish vibes from it, but maybe that's just the default look of the text and system icons, with their 1:2 pixel aspect.

      It's not clear why the system charset and icons didn't receive higher resolution updates when 640x480 became available. It sure is weird seeing them sharing the same UI widgets with modern-looking, anti-aliased fonts... at first glance I thought the screenshots were edited(!)

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