List of BBS software

This article is about software that acted as bulletin board systems themselves. For external BBS software, see BBS door.

Main article: Bulletin board system

This is a list of notable bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.

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

Acorn RISC OS

• ArcBBS
• vhost (bulletin board software)

Altos 68000

• PicoSpan

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
• 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 CBBS a work-a-like of MSDOS Opus-CBCS
• Fastrack
• MAX's BBS by Anthony Barrett
• MAX's Pro by Niki Murkett
• 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
• 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
• 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

Apple II series

• ABBS
• AppleNet
• AcmeNet
• Citamad/Lumadel
• CompuNet
• DDBBS
• Diversi-Dial (DDial) — Chat-room atmosphere supporting up to 7 incoming lines allowing links to other DDial boards.
• EBBS II
• FredMail
• FutureVision — by TC Wilson (aka The Captain) — based on the METAL language
• GBBS — Applesoft-based BBS program
• GBBS Pro — based on the ACOS or MACOS (modified ACOS) language
• HBBS — a hi-resolution graphical dial-up BBS and client package for the Apple II — supported threaded, rich media messages including graphics, shapes, sound, fonts, sprites and animation via it's desktop client entitled Pixterm
• Hopscotch — by Eric Senior — Written in 6502 assembly, chat system supporting up to 16 users
• HotCom — by Hansi
• KauCom — by Brendon Woirhaye
• Networks II — by Nick Naimo
• Nexus
• People's Message System (PMS)
• Proving Grounds
• METAL BBS — written in a powerful scripting language designed for more than just a BBS
• PBBS
• PEPSI (BBS) — by Bill Wolf & Tod O'Brien — based on MACOS, a hacked & improved version of ACOS
• Prime
• ProLine — by Morgan Davis — popular with many A2 user group BBSs
• The Proving Grounds — A role playing game BBS
• Pseudodel — a Citadel variant for the Apple //
• SNAPP
• Tele-Cat — Free, used the Novation Apple-Cat II Modem, supported 1200 bps (202-half/212-full duplex), last version was Tele-Cat // 3.0
• TProBBS — An RPG BBS by Guy T. Rice; a version has been ported by Robert Hurst at RPGD
• Warp Six — Applesoft-based BBS program, by Jim Ferr
• WAPABBS — Washington Apple PI Users Group BBS
• WWIV BBS
• VinyaMicil (VM)

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)
• 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)

BASIC Stamp

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

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

Commodore computers

• 1541 BBS
• 6480 Exchange by David Tingler
• 6485 Exchange by "Ivory Joe"
• 6487 Exchange by Nick Smith
• 64 Exchange BBS by "The Breaker"
• 64 Messenger by Messenger Software
• A+ BBS Software by David Culp
• Ace-Line BBS by Gilligan
• All American BBS by Nickolai Smith
• All American 128 by Nickolai Smith
• ARB BBS by Arthur Brock
• Bizarre 64 by Bill Atchison
• Black Cat BBS or BCBBS by Mike Foerster
• Blue Board by Martin Sikes
• Superboard by Greg Francis and Randy Schnedler
• Bob's BBS
• BBS64 by Steve Punter
• BBS Construction Set by Will Gaddy
• C*Base by Gunther Birznieks, Jerome P. Yoner, and David Weinehall.
• C-Net 64 by RM Software (1992-2010)
• C-Net 128 by RM Software (1992-2010)
• C-Net DS2 by Jim Selleck
• CCGMS BBS by Craig Smith
• Centipede BBS by Adam Fanello
• CHATeau by Eugene Tiffany
• Citadel 64 BBS by K2NE Software
• Color64 by Greg Pfountz
• Color 64 (Version 128) by Adam Fanello
• Commodore Mania BBS by Don Snider
• Dataquick BBS
• DarkStar BBS by DarkStar Software
• Dircon BBS by Jay Winick and Aaron Ogus
• DMBBS by ARTIsoft
• Does the Job BBS by Andrew Bernhardt
• EBBS 64 by Ed Parry
• EBBS 128 by Mike Pugliese
• Electric Magazine by Bob Shannon
• Electro-Com by Bill Bowers
• Elite BBS by Bill Fink (not affiliated with the next listing)
• Elite BBS by HJ van Rantwijk and Coen Roos
• Elite Exchange 1 by Stevyn Prothero
• Fasst 64 BBS by Randy Epstein (former: C-Net 64 BBS v11.7a)
• Frontier 128
• Hal's BBS by Richard Buchanan
• Image BBS by New Image Software
• Infoquick BBS by Lew Lasher
• Intelligentsia 128 by Robert S. Murawski
• Ivory BBS by Bill Jackson
• Keeper-Line by Tom Davidson
• Laser 128 by Chris Timmerberg
• Lightning BBS
• Matchmaker
• McBBS by Derek E. McDonald
• Microram BBS
• Midgaard BBS
• Mike Black BBS by Mike Black
• Omni 128 by Omni Software
• PETBBS by Steve Punter
• Punter BBS by Steve Punter
• RAD BBS
• RAVICS by Adam Jacobs
• RGBBS
• Ribit BBS by J.W. Fulmer
• Realm of Shadow by Lord of Stealth/Moonknight
• Satellite BBS by Shaw/Backer
• SCBBS by Chad Stansel
• Star 128
• Stellar Zone by "Mr. X"
• ST/R BBS by Douglas McLaughlin
• Spence XP by Ken Spence/James MacFarlane
• Spectrum BBS by "Strange Illusion"
• Spice-Net by Darrell Spice
• Supra 128 by Julian Burger
• System 64! by Steve Gregory
• Fantasy Rollplaying by Deep Pan Software
• Ultra-Com BBS by PW
• U.E.S. BBS by Willie Goebel
• Vision Color BBS by Vision Software
• Visions BBS by Larry Ross
• VortexNet 128 BBS by Stephen Kunc
• Xavian BBS by Star Tech Software
• ZBBS by "Mr. Bill"
• Zelch 64 BBS by Planet Ink.
• Zelch 128 BBS by Elite Software

CP/M

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

• RBBS written in Microsoft Basic — really slow login with more than a few users
• PBBS 4 written in Z80 Assembly Code by Russ Pencin
• QBBS (QuickBBS)
• TBBS
• XBBS
• MikroKom
• Bulldog BBS written in BDS C

Apple Macintosh

• Citadels including Macadel, MacCitadel
• FirstClass (SoftArc)
• Hermes
• Mansion
• NovaLink
• TeleFinder
• Red Ryder Host (early example of donationware)
• Welly

MS-DOS and compatible

• 1BBS — Unix-style BBS software written by Teemu Harju
• 2AM-BBS — Written by Neil Clarke, Chris Gorman, and Tom Vogl (2AM Associates)
• Alacrity BBS
• Allans kakburk
• Alphabox
• Alpha-KOM
• Apocolis — Written by Pat Barnes and Dan Joseph, an offshoot of the original Vision.
• Auntie BBS Written by Wes Meier
• BBBS
• CBBS — The first ever BBS software, written by Ward Christensen.
• Celerity BBS
• Citadels including DragCit, Cit86, TurboCit, Citadel+
• Computer Information Exchange (CIE)
• Concord BBS — Written by Pasi Talliniemi
• DarkStar BBS — the first full multimedia BBS platform, written by Jerry Thomas Hunter and distributed from 1989 through 1995
• DeusBBS — Written by Simon Giles
• DLX BBS Written by Richard Gillmann (Inner Loop Software)
• EDLX BBS
• EleBBS
• Emulex (later Emulex/2)
• Elite BBS — Written by HJ van Rantwijk
• Eternity
• Ezycom — Written by Peter Davies
• FerretBBS — Written by Jason Scott (www.textfiles.com)
• Fido — Written by Tom Jennings (www.wps.com)
• Force! — Written by Guy Smith and Jim Langley
• Forum PC — One of the most copied BBS sources which spawned a legion of "Forum hacks"
• Fornax — Written by Minh Ma (aka Briareos)
• Free Speech — A simple single-template message board
• Gap
• GBBS (Graphics BBS) — used in the Melbourne area
• Genesis PC BBS — Written in Turbo Pascal 3.0 by Jim Berg and Steven (Kiriwuth) Path
• GT-Power
• Hostplus — part of the Telix suite
• H-KOM
• Hysteria BBS — tricky WWiV hack
• Illusion BBS
• Iniquity BBS
• Infusion BBS
• Impulse BBS
• Insomnia BBS
• Infinity BBS
• Insanity BBS
• Instinct BBS
• Jet BBS
• Lora BBS
• L.S.D. BBS — Written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG)
• The Major BBS
• Maximus
• MBBS
• McBBS — by Derek E. McDonald
• Mystic BBS
• MikroKom
• NanoBBS
• Nexus BBS — Written by George Roberts
• Nochange — by Jim Kloss
• Oblivion/2
• Opus-CBCS — First written by Wynn Wagner III
• Oracomm (early) Oracomm Plus (later) — Written by Guy Young
• PCBoard
• PegaSys
• PipeLine — Written by Matt Stanley (Net Distortion)
• Pobble — Written in New Zealand by Josh Parsons
• PowerBBS
• Powerboard BBS
• ProBoard BBS — Written by Philippe Leybaert (Belgium)
• Puppy
• Pyroto Mountain
• PoweredBoard
• QuickBBS — Written by Adam Hudson (With assistance by Phil Becker)
• QuiverBBS
• RBBS-PC
• RemoteAccess — Written by Andrew Milner
• Renegade — Written by Cott Lang
• Revelation
• RIPterm by TeleGrafix Communications
• RoboBOARD/FX — Written by Seth Hamilton
• SDLX BBS Written by Dustin Thomas, Jason Quinn
• Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)
• Shotgun BBS — Written by Brent Shellenberg
• Spitfire
• STadel-PC, a PC version of the STadel variant of Citadel for the Atari ST
• SuperBBS by Aki Antman and Risto Virkkala
• TBBS
• Telegard
• TriBBS
• TPCS
• TCL
• TAG
• Tornado BBS
• UBBS
• VDLX BBS Written by Collin Gohl
• Virtual Advanced, also known as VBBS
• ViSiON
• ViSiON-X — Written by Ed Youssef
• ViSiON/2 "The Revision"
• VorTeX BBS — Written by Jason S. Clary. A protected mode multitasking BBS with a mixed ANSI and vector graphic system using an ANSI-like protocol.
• Waffle — Written by Tom Dell, and supported UUCP (and Fidonet through extensions).
• Wildcat! — originally by Mustang Software
• Worldgroup — The latest version of MajorBBS, the last released by Galacticomm.
• WWIV — Written by Wayne Bell, included WWIVNet and while popular on DOS platforms also had an OS/2 version.
• XBBS — Written by Mark Kimes. Distributed with source code, this allowed a very customizable system. Also available for OS/2. Support was very limited ("If it breaks, you have both pieces" — M. Kimes).

OS/2

• AdeptXBBS
• BBBS
• Bulletron [1] — Written by Patrick Gleason
• EleBBS
• LoraBBS
• Maximus
• Oracomm Plus (later) — Written by Guy Young
• PCBoard
• Virtual Advanced, also known as VBBS
• XBBS — 32-bit platform version of XBBS originally for MS-DOS systems.

Tandy TRS-80

• Forum 80

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A

• TIBBS Written by Ralph Fowler.

Timex Sinclair

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

TOPS-10

• QZ KOM

Unix and compatible

• Synchronet
• BBBS
• Citadels including Citadel/UX, Dave's Own Citadel
• Drealm
• Eagles BBS — ebbs *nix based
• EleBBS
• Falken BBS — Linux-based
• Firebird — Linux-based
• iBBS
• Maple
• Maximus
• Megistos
• FEWT Software the home of Photon BBS
• PicoSpan
• ROCAT — The Roman Catacombs
• Sauron Linux BBS — www.sauron.org.uk
• Sklaffkom — Linux-based
• LysKOM
• Uncensored the home of Citadel/UX
• OpenTG — OpenTG (OpenTelegard BBS)

Microsoft Windows

• BBBS
• EleBBS
• Excalibur BBS
• Synchronet
• PowerBBS
• PCBoard
• www.Chat Written by Dustin Thomas, Jason Quinn — Never released public but demo is out there.
• Wildcat! BBS still actively maintained and developed by Santronics, approaching a 7.0 release, named Wildcat Interactive NET Server.

External links

• BBS documentary site: list of BBS software
• BBS Archives
• Another List of BBS software
• Reviews and Downloads of Commodore BBS software