List of BBS software
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This is a list of notable bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.[1]
Multi-platform
- Citadel
- CONFER – CONFER II on the MTS, CONFER U on Unix, written by Robert Parnes starting in 1975.
- Mystic BBS – written by James Coyle with versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, Mac OSX, and Raspberry Pi.
- Synchronet
- Virtual Advanced – also known as VBBS.
Amiga based
- Ami-Express – aka "/X", very popular in the crackers/pirate software scene.
- M A X's BBS
- Paragon BBS system, one of the first software products created by Jon Radoff.Cite error: A
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- Blue Board – by Martin Sikes.
- Superboard – by Greg Francis and Randy Schnedler.
- C*Base – by Gunther Birznieks, Jerome P. Yoner, and David Weinehall.
- C-Net DS2 – by Jim Selleck.
- Color64 – by Greg Pfountz.
- Does the Job BBS – by Andrew Bernhardt.
- IMAGE – by Ginny Beth Gladden and Fred S. Dart.[2]
- Ivory BBS – by Bill Jackson.
- McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald.
Many of these needed BYE and KMD to handle modem interactions and file transfers.
MS-DOS and compatible
- CBBS – The first ever BBS software, written by Ward Christensen.
- Celerity BBS
- Citadel – including DragCit, Cit86, TurboCit, Citadel+
- Ezycom – written by Peter Davies.
- EleBBS
- Falken
- FBB (F6FBB) – packet radio BBS system, still in use.[3]
- GAP BBS – by Kenny Gardner, Gary Araki, & Michael Part. The first BBS written in Microsoft C [4]
- GBBS (Graphics BBS) – used in the Melbourne area.
- GT-Power
- L.S.D. BBS – written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG).
- JetBBS – written by Troy Beckstrom[5]
- The Major BBS
- Maximus
- MBBS
- McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald.
- Mystic BBS
- Opus-CBCS – first written by Wynn Wagner III.
- PCBoard
- PegaSys
- ProBoard BBS – written by Philippe Leybaert (Belgium).
- Pyroto Mountain
- QuickBBS – written by Adam Hudson, with assistance by Phil Becker.
- RBBS-PC
- RemoteAccess – written by Andrew Milner.
- Renegade – written by Cott Lang.
- RoboBOARD/FX – written by Seth Hamilton.
- Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)
- Spitfire
- SuperBBS – by Aki Antman and Risto Virkkala.
- Synchronet
- TBBS
- Telegard
- TriBBS
- TCL
- TAG
- Virtual Advanced – also known as VBBS.
- 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.
- AdeptXBBS
- EleBBS
- Maximus
- Mystic BBS
- PCBoard
- Synchronet
- Virtual Advanced – also known as VBBS.
- Wildcat! – originally by Mustang Software. It was not an OS/2 software package, but included code to run in a DOS box under OS/2.
Tandy TRS-80
Unix and compatible
- Citadel – including Citadel/UX, Dave's Own Citadel.
- EleBBS
- Firebird BBS – Linux-based.
- LysKOM
- Maple BBS
- Maximus
- Mystic BBS
- OpenTG – OpenTelegard BBS
- PicoSpan
- Sklaffkom – Linux-based.
- Synchronet
- Waffle (BBS software)
References
- ^ BBS Software Listing, Jason Scott, 2005.
- ^ [1]
- ^ FBB official web site
- ^ GAP BBS official website
- ^ [2]