Mystic BBS

Mystic BBS

Operating system	DOS, Windows, OS/2, OSX, Linux
Type	BBS
License	Proprietary freeware
Website	http://www.mysticbbs.com/

Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program started in 1994. Mystic is the first DOS-based BBS software program to support a native telnet server. It has since been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, OSX, and Linux.

Some of the more notable features of Mystic BBS include:

• Proprietary scripting language called Mystic Programming Language (MPL).
• Dynamic menus and fully customizable prompts.
• Multiple user-selectable themes.
• DOOR32 support (James Coyle was one of the original authors of DOOR32) in addition to various DOS-type door formats.
• Automatic random ANSI display (i.e. ansi.ans, ansi.an1, ansi.an2, etc would display randomly).
• A fully featured ACS (access control system) and MCI display codes
• Highly integrated with ANSI graphics including full screen editor, lightbar menus, lightbar file listings and message reading.
• Integrated Telnet, FTP, POP3, SMTP servers
• Advanced, feature-rich JAM and Squish message base system with offline mail.
• Multiple platform distributions available including Windows, OSX and Linux

Attracted to the flexibility and potential that the scripting language provides, a number groups, such as ACiDic BBS modding, Cyberia, Demonic, DoRE, Vanguard, wOE!mODDING and Wicked formed for the sole purpose of writing BBS mods for SysOps who run Mystic.

External links

• Mystic BBS website
• Interview with author, g00r00 (reprint from wOEzine, December 1998)

BBS' That Run Mystic

• Misery BBS (run by netsurge - home of the mystic bbs php library
• Black Thursday BBS (Run by skatter since the late '90s)
• Never Never Land BBS (419 area code oldest bbs since '91)
• Clutch BBS (Originally launched in `95)
• Distortion BBS
• Mythology BBS Originally launched in '94
• Fluph BBS (304 area code launched in '97)