Mystic BBS
| Original author(s) | James Coyle |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.12 A48
/ January 15, 2023 |
| Written in | FreePascal |
| Operating system | MS-DOS, Windows, OS/2, OS X, Linux |
| Platform | IA_32, x86-64, ARM, AARCH64 |
| Type | BBS |
| License | Proprietary freeware |
| Website | www |
Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 for MS-DOS. It has 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 Renegade (BBS) and Telegard 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 FidoNet BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP & FTP mailers
- 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 2.x and 3.x programming languages
- 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
- A fully featured ACS (access control system) and MCI display codes
- Modern security features such as TLS v1.2+, 512-bit PBKDF2 password storage, and AES-256 encrypted Netmail
- 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.
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Software & Configuration[edit]
Bulletin Board Systems[edit]
Here's a small selection of BBS that currently use Mystic software (alphabetical by BBS name):
- [telnet]://terranempire.ddns.net:1017] (Emperor Kirk, your sysop, Mirror universe of Enterprise, Vintage computer theme)
- 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)
- Captain's Quarters II BBS (CQII BBS website, running on a Mac!)
- 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
- iNK tWO BBS Ink Two Website, run by Smooth since '13 in Covina, CA
- Leisure Time BBS (Located in New Baden, IL, USA)
- Lunatic Fringe (Located in Vancouver, WA)
- 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)
- SLiME CiTY BBS - Sweden - Dedicated to retro computing and computer security! Running since 2013
- The Bottomless Abyss BBS - Canada - ArakNet/Phenom member board. Home of MRC, Threat Sentry and Hackfest Official BBS.
- The ByteXchange BBS - Texas - Home of Cyber-Net Network and running since 1992!
- The Vortex BBS 864s longest running BBS created in 1996.
- The Zone BBS (Located in Lorain, Ohio)
- CrNet BBS (Located in Long Island, NY)
To connect to these systems, a Telnet client designed to access BBS systems such as NetRunner is recommended.