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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: Bella's OS-tan Artwork Thr...

Last post by Bella - Today at 11:23:59 PM

Yes, yes, VAX-tan.  You've heard my ideas about her, but I'll post them in my thread sometime soon.

>:3c

I love the family connection's you've drawn between the different groups!  Probably not a surprise that the LINC-line is my maybe my favorite, the green outfits with dark hair is very striking, as is -12's green eyes.  -10 looks like she stole that outfit off a Boston & Maine locomotive.  All the small blondes are very cute.

All the creamsicley PDP-8 related OSes have really nice color palette.  RAMP looks fantastic!  Good combination of PDP-8 as one mom and MTS as the other.

Thank you! It's no surprise you like the LINC line or PDP-8s (et. al.) PDP-10 looks like a B&M locomotive? For some reason I thought their color scheme was red.

Gotta compress quite a bit into that frame. That's a good take for SCPSYS, really fits how she was designed.  I think I need to expand/spruce up her characterization tbh, I feel like I left it thinner than it should be.

Yes! I would love to see more SCPSYS characterization!

WAITS-san......

Bad or good time to mention that I can't stop thinking about WAITS x ITS?

TENEX's dual-tone hair is cool.  Honestly forgot MUMPS was a nurse.  Oh look, she's there to keep the saddest time-sharing OS from just falling over.  I like to think BBNTSS-tan is comparing herself to the rest with that side-eye.  DOS and RT-11 look like they're gonna beat me up.  RSX-11's coat and bell bottoms combo is baller.  I'm glad UNIX is miserable to be here.  Where on earth is there VAXELN information kept?  Is VMS here to take my order?  LOL.  ULTRIX very fluffy, very nice.

But you designed MUMPS-tan!!! All of the VAX gang look like they could be waiters, maître d's, etc... you could say they're professional servers _{I'll see myself out.}


Last art of 2025, and first post of '26!


-tans with significant anniversaries this year!

• ENIAC: turning 80 years old
• Bendix G-15: 70 y.o.
• DOS/360 & OS/360: 60 y.o.
• Cray 1: 50 y.o.

And Multics (60 y.o. as of 2025) as Father Time(sharing), ushering out the old year. . .

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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by VonDaab - Today at 04:23:05 PM

Happy new years and such.
Something stupid doodled on a stream.

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OS-tan Talk / Re: More IBM-tans III: The One...

Last post by stewartsage - December 28, 2025, 10:11:08 PM

I fully maintain that the DEC-tans should be a group project! PDPs included.

I'd be curious to hear your EDSAC story ideas! She really is the one who made it out most unscathed. (Well, aside from the being dead for a long while bit.)

Then I'll have to contribute.

Nothing really detailed, just that there might be something to her being a bit more detached from the fate of most early generation computers.  Contrasted against Whirlwind or EDVAC or the like.

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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by VonDaab - December 26, 2025, 06:03:42 AM

I was taught to scan monochrome bitmaps, where the scanner would filter out any grey pixels, leaving only solid black lineart. I was told 300dpi was enough detail. But retrospectively if the scanner supported higher, I would've gone for it, even if filesize would've bloated exponentially.

I do remember a 300dpi bmp being easily 50mb or more, which was kinda lot when I was moving stuff around on a 256mb usb stick. Which was big at the time.

There is also a trick photoshop still supports where you can take solid lineart from a flat image and "lift" it off to a separate layer, so you can colour underneath it. Really handy for traditionally inked stuff.

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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by Bella - December 25, 2025, 08:10:24 PM

Also that original is so old that it's back from when I still drew and inked on paper.
Lineart just a rather low resolution bitmap scan. Not ideal.

Could've fooled me, it looks good for a scan.

Also did all digital artists scan traditional line art, do the curves + color replacement trick and digitally color it in back in the day? I remember this being really common and doing it myself. It seems like a lost practice. I wonder if cheap display graphics tablets & iPads did it in.

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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by VonDaab - December 25, 2025, 07:28:33 PM

In this economy would be cheaper to put solid gold bars instead of RAM.
Had to drop Inu-T due to time constraints, I guess.

Also that original is so old that it's back from when I still drew and inked on paper.
Lineart just a rather low resolution bitmap scan. Not ideal.

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General Chat / Re: Topicless thread

Last post by Bella - December 25, 2025, 05:43:23 PM

Merry Christmas y'all!

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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by Bella - December 25, 2025, 05:42:38 PM

Putting milk and RAM out on the mantle for Saseklaus... :3

She is even more gongeous in your new style but there's something very charming about the Inu-T reindeer in the original!

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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: FREE COOKIES!

Last post by VonDaab - December 25, 2025, 05:37:25 PM

Still within the season for this. Happy merriments and such.
Decided to redraw the seasonal Saseko from... 18 years ago.

I'll let you figure out which one is the new one.

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OS-tan Fan-Fics, Comics and Fan-Stuff / Re: My 20th -tanniversary Proj...

Last post by Bella - December 21, 2025, 09:18:21 PM

Been awhile since I updated! Slowly chipping away. Up to 152 characters.
 

Fullsize

Left-to-right(ish):

LinEspa, Belanix, Adamantix, Lunar Linux, Sorcerer, Source Mage, Damn Small Linux, Damn Small BSD, Damn Small Solaris, Altair 8800, Imsai 8080, Acorn MOS, ZX Spectrum, Sinclair QL, Coleco Adam, ORIC, MSX-DOS, DOS/V, Atari DOS, Atari TOS, Amiga Unix, TripOS;

QDOS, FreeDOS, ROM DOS, PTS-DOS;

Commodores VIC-20, Minuteman, -65, PET, Plus/4, Amiga, -64, -128;

AROS, MorphOS 1.0 and MorphOS 2.0.