Mystic BBS

Mystic BBS
Original author(s)	James Coyle
Stable release	1.11 / November 6, 2015
Preview release	1.12 Alpha 46 / August 26, 2020
Written in	FreePascal
Operating system	DOS, Windows, OS/2, OS X, Linux
Platform	IA_32, x86-64, ARM
Type	BBS
License	Proprietary freeware
Website	www.mysticbbs.com

Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 under the MS-DOS platform. It has since been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, OS X, and Linux (Intel and ARM based systems such as the Raspberry Pi). Mystic was designed to be a spiritual successor to the Telegard and Renegade bulletin board systems.

Some of the more notable capabilities of Mystic BBS include:

Integrated Telnet, SSH, RLogin, FTP, BinkP, HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP servers with IPv4 + IPv6 support
Full 5D compliant BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP and FTP mailer
Built in AreaFix and FileFix functionality and full fileecho support
Integrated QWK and QWKE networking via FTP
Integrated text and ANSI editors, message editing with on-the-fly spell checking and word suggestions
Proprietary scripting language called Mystic Programming Language (MPL)
Embedded PYTHON programming language
DOS CP437 and UTF8 character translations, terminal sizes up to 160x60
Dynamic menus including menu editor, and fully customizable prompts
Multiple user-selectable themes
DOOR32 support 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
Advanced, feature-rich JAM message base system with QWK/QWKE offline mail
Multiple platform distributions available including Windows, OS X, Linux and ARM Linux (Raspberry Pi, ODROID, etc.)

A more complete list of capabilities can be found at http://www.mysticbbs.com/features.html

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

Software & Configuration

Bulletin Board Systems

Here's a small selection of BBS that currently use Mystic software (alphabetical by BBS name):

Agency BBS (New Zealand BBS, run by Avon since '13)
Another F-ing BBS (Anotherbbs.bbsindex.com , Run by Gary Crunk since January '17)
Arcadia BBS (Arcadia BBS, run by Nazferiti - Features Games, Files, and Gated Usenet)
BlackICE BBS (German BBS, since '13)
Central Ontario Remote BBS
Clutch BBS (Originally launched in `95 - home of the Acidic Paging Module)
Cyberia BBS telnet to cyberia.darktech.org
Datanet BBS Melbourne, Australia SysOp: rEApZ
Distortion BBS
Error 1202 BBS (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '19)
Error 404 BBS (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '14)
flupH BBS Survnet *Survival & Self reliance Hq* Blocktronic member board
Leisure Time BBS (Located in New Baden, IL, USA)
Necronomicon BBS (Originally started on Amiga CNet. Run by Necromaster. Home of RetroNet)
Never Never Land BBS (419 area code oldest bbs since '89)
Piranha BBS (<ACiD> board run by caphood, since '95)
Sinner's Haven II (Originally Created in '89 telegard, '92 OBV/2, recreated in '13 under Mystic)
The Vortex BBS 864s longest running BBS created in 1996.
THE VOiD BBS (Located in Troy, Ohio ran by Terra-X)
Lunatic Fringe (Located in Vancouver, WA)
The Zone BBS (Located in Lorain, Ohio)
The ByteXchange BBS - Texas - Home of Cyber-Net Network and running since 1992!
SLiME CiTY BBS - Sweden - Dedicated to retro computing and computer security! Running since 2013

To connect to these systems, a Telnet client designed to access BBS systems such as NetRunner is recommended.

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