Sources for Mac Manga that works in 2026?

[thetitanflix she/her]

First topic... hope I didn't miss anything!

I've been searching through the older forums to find a link to Mac Manga, but anything that seemed leading ended up not working anymore, any tips to find it?

[Bella]

Weirdly I remember hearing it talked about way back, but I never actually read it at the time. Took me a bit of digging around through the forum / wiki to even pick up the context clues for where to look to find it...

I found it in the old gallery, under the adult 18+ section as it's ecchi. Viewer discretion advised, proceed at your own risk etc.

[thetitanflix she/her]

Thanks! Been making a documentary about the Apple-Tans, this seemed like the last piece I needed to dissect before I do anything else

Now... That's a lot of translating and sorting to do...

[Bella]

Nifty! Which ones are you covering?

[thetitanflix she/her]

Oops! Never seen this one!

But, as many as possible, Sonata, OSX, OSX variants, and hopefully anyone else that has enough information

[Bella]

Oops! Never seen this one!

But, as many as possible, Sonata, OSX, OSX variants, and hopefully anyone else that has enough information

May be worth mentioning the artist Esu. They are a prominent artist responsible for many of the most popular representations of OS X versions. https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/276388

[thetitanflix she/her]

Thanks! I'll be sure to use this!

[thetitanflix she/her]

While on the topic of getting old sources, Mac Party.

Same deal as Mac Manga, I see the thread, but I don't see any type of source...

[Bella]

While on the topic of getting old sources, Mac Party.

Same deal as Mac Manga, I see the thread, but I don't see any type of source...

I assume you mean Mac Party Redux. That was a comic by one of our old members, Aurora Borealis. I'm not sure it exists in full anywhere on the site anymore, image host link rot has not been kind to the things posted here (nearly 20 years ago now). Some of it still exists on the old image gallery archive.

IIRC, Mac Party Redux was inspired by Mac Manga, but dropped the NSFW elements for more straightforward comedic scenarios. Given the name, I assume she made an original "Mac Party" but I'm not familiar with it - probably before my time here on OSC.

Aurora was a prominent Mac artist responsible for OSC's homegrown Mac-tans. Primarily, personifications for Mac System 1 through 7. (7.5-tan, 8-tan, 9-tan, 9.1 & 9.2-tan all originated on Futaba or Nijura, AFAIK.) You can see art of them at the archive link I posted, as well as chibi form here.

[thetitanflix she/her]

So it's partly lost media... Nice..

Well, that seems like everything needed to get stuff going, thanks, Bella!

I think I'll still stay roaming around on these forums, you all seem like a nice bunch of folks!