List of BBS software

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Main article: Bulletin board system

This is a list of notable bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.[1][2]

Contents

[edit] Multi-platform

  • ATBBS – PHP-based BBS software.
  • BBBS
  • Citadel
  • CONFER – CONFER II on MTS, CONFER U on Unix, written by Robert Parnes starting in 1975.
  • EleBBS
  • IN-MENU – written in Borland Pascal 7.0 by Viktor Nozhnov. Running on MS-DOS and All Windows.
  • PortaCOM
  • Synchronet
  • Virtual Advanced, also known as VBBS
  • Mystic BBS – written by James Coyle with versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, and Mac OSX although only Windows, OSX, and Linux in recent versions.

[edit] Acorn RISC OS

[edit] Altos 68000

[edit] Amiga based

  • 4D-BBS – by Dale E. Reed Jr.
  • ABBS (a Mike's BBS-like system)
  • AmBoS – by Jörg Eßmann and Kai Szymanski
  • Ami-Express aka "/X" (Very popular in the crackers/pirate software scene)
  • AmiCon v1 & 2, C language based modular BBS system by Paul Roffey
  • Atredes (evolved into Skyline)
  • BBBS
  • BBS-PC! (v4.13 -4.20)
  • CNet Amiga – by Ken Pletzer (1-4)
  • CNet Amiga – by Zen Metal Software (4.1 – 5.07a)
  • CNet Amiga – by Storm's Edge Technologies (5.10+) http://www.cnetbbs.net/
  • DayDream BBS – by Antti Häyrynen and Mattias Nilsson
  • Dialog BBS (which then evolved into DLG BBS)
  • DLG Professional BBS
  • Excelsior! BBS
  • Falcon CBCS a work-a-like of MSDOS Opus-CBCS
  • Fastrack
  • MAX's BBS – by Anthony Barrett
  • MAX's Pro – by Niki Murkett
  • MEBBS
  • Metro BBS – by Percy L Broadnax
  • NiKom – by Niklas Lindholm
  • New Touch Pro (NTPro)
  • OzMetro BBS – by Peter Deane and Percy L Broadnax
  • Paragon BBS – by John Radoff (evolved into StarNet BBS then MEBBS)
  • Phobos
  • Prometheus
  • Rapport BBS – by Mark Brinicombe and Paul Roberts
  • Remote Access – by Andrew Milner
  • Skyline BBS, featuring Skypix Protocol, the first online communication protocol sporting rich graphic content such as changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound[3]
  • StarNet – by Eric Drewry (which came from Paragon, then later became MEBBS)
  • Stormforce BBS – by Kris Hudson & Andrew Ward
  • System-X – by Peter (zed) Zelestny and Michael (rawfox) Clasen
  • Tempest BBS – by Michael P. Bockert
  • Transmission Impossible BBS – by Lee Bates
  • TransAmiga – by Timothy J. Aston (written in BlitzBasic)
  • Wildcat BBS – by Mustang Software
  • Xenolink 2 – by Xeno Inc
  • Zeus BBS originally – by Nick Loman and Alex May

[edit] Apple II series

[edit] Atari

  • The ACS BBS (ANTIC BBS)
  • A.M.I.S. BBS (ATARI Message Information System)
  • ATKeep
  • BBCS (Bulletin Board Construction Set)
  • BBS Express! – by Rick Taylor, Keith Ledbetter
  • BBS Express-Professional!
  • Carina
  • Carnival (BASIC, first introduced in ANTIC Magazine)
  • FaST BBS (Jeff Molofee AKA NeHe)
  • FoReM BBS ("Friends of Rickey Moose")
  • FoReM-XE
  • Fox-Box
  • Milestone BBS – by Ernst Marending
  • MiniBBS
  • Nite Lite BBS – by Paul Swanson
  • Oasis IV
  • QuickBBS ST
  • RATSoft/ST
  • Raven of Mystic BBS – by David Bolt
  • STadel, a Citadel variant for the Atari ST
  • Titan (written by Dominic Vaccaro in 1984)
  • Titanic
  • Turbo BBS (a FoReM clone)
  • Transcendence BBS
  • Spiffy BBS (ATASCI / ASCII / VT52) for Atari ST (written by Richard Kelsch)

[edit] BASIC Stamp

  • BasiCDMA – a BBS written to work with the U300 series cell phones (under development)(abandoned as of 3/15/2011)

[edit] BBC Micro

  • Autonomic Systems – by Glyn "T'GG" Phillips
  • Bloxham BBS
  • FBBS – by Marcus Anselm (with significant help from Rob O'Donnell / Jon Freeman and Jason Tanner)
  • NBBS – by Jon Freeman
  • OBBS – by Rob O'Donnell

[edit] Commodore computers

[edit] CP/M

Many of these needed BYE and KMD to handle modem interactions and file transfers

[edit] Apple Macintosh

[edit] MS-DOS and compatible

[edit] OS/2

[edit] Tandy TRS-80

  • Forum 80
  • Green Machine
  • MTABBS (Michael's Totally Awesome BBS) - by Michael S. Livorsi.

[edit] Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

  • TIBBS – by Ralph Fowler.

[edit] Timex Sinclair

  • Spiffy BBS (written for the TS2068 in 1983 by Richard Kelsch)

[edit] TOPS-10

  • QZ KOM

[edit] Unix and compatible

[edit] Microsoft Windows

[edit] References

  1. ^ 2005, BBS: The Documentary, Bovine Ignition Systems, directed by Jason Scott
  2. ^ Jason Scott (2005), BBS Software Listing, http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/
  3. ^ Scott Lee. "BBSDocumentary, An Overview of BBS Programs". Jason Scott for Wired Magazine. http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/expanded.html. Retrieved 2005. 
  4. ^ BBS: The documentary, The BBS Software Directory, http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/IBM/DOS/CONCORD/

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