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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?

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I 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

Here's the more modern 3.7 from 1996:

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/riscos37

An annotated walkthrough the GUI:

https://telcontar.net/Misc/GUI/RISCOS/

Look at that subpixel antialiased text in 3.7.

So, so far ahead of it's time.

First 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.

there are plenty of screenshots in the user guide:

https://www.riscosopen.org/zipfiles/platform/common/UserGuid...

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