List of BBS software

This is a list of notable dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.2005, "BBS: The Documentary," Bovine Ignition Systems, directed by Jason Scott] Jason Scott (2005), BBS Software Listing, http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/]

Apple II based

* ASCII Express - one of the original Apple II BBS/Terminal programs
* AppleNet -
* CATFUR - file transfer software that ran exclusively on AppleCat modems
* Diversi-Dial - (DDial) - Chat-room atmosphere supporting up to 7 incoming lines allowing links to other DDial boards.
* FutureVision - by TC Wilson (aka The Captain) - based on the METAL language
* GBBS - Applesoft-based BBS program
* GBBS Pro - based on the ACOS language
* HotCom - by Hansi
* KauCom - by Brendon Woirhaye
* Networks II - by Nick Naimo
* PEPSI (BBS) - by Bill Wolf & Todd O'brien - based on MACOS, a hacked & improved version of ACOS
* PixelTerm - a hi-resolution graphical dial-up BBS and client package for the Apple II - supported rich media messages including graphics, shapes, sound, fonts, sprites and animation.
* ProLine - by Morgan Davis - popular with many A2 user group BBSs
* ProTerm - by Intrec - (in ProTerm remote mode)
* The Proving Grounds - A role playing game BBS
* Pseudodel - a Citadel variant for the Apple //
* TProBBS - An RPG BBS by Guy T. Rice; a version has been ported by Robert Hurst at [http://robert.hurst-ri.us/games/rpgd/ RPGD]
* Warp Six - Applesoft-based BBS program, by Jim Ferr
* WAPABBS - Washington Apple PI Users Group BBS
* WWIV BBS

Amiga based

*4D-BBS by Dale E. Reed Jr.
*ABBS (a Mike's BBS like system)
*Ami-Express aka "/X" (Very popular in the crakers/pirate software scene)
*AmiCon v1 & 2, C language based modular BBS system by Paul Roffey
*BBBS
*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+)
*DLG Professional BBS
*Excelsior! BBS
*Falcon CBBS a work-a-like of MSDOS Opus-CBCS
*MAX's BBS by Anthony Barrett
*MAX's Pro by Niki Murkett
*NiKom - by Niklas Lindholm
*New Touch Pro (NTPro)
*Paragon BBS
*Transmission Impossible BBS by Lee Bates
*TransAmiga by Timothy J. Aston (written in BlitzBasic)
*Xenolink 2 by Xeno Inc
*Zeus BBS originally by Nick Loman and Alex May

Atari based

* 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
* 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

Commodore-based

*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
*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
*Blue Board by Martin Sikes
*BoneBoard by 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 Perspective Software
*C-Net 128 by Perspective Software
*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
*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 Spence/McFarlane
*Spectrum BBS by "Strange Illusion"
*Spice-Net by Darrell Spice
*Supra 128 by Julian Burger
*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 based

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

Macintosh based

*Citadels including Macadel, MacCitadel
*FirstClass (SoftArc)
*Hermes
*NovaLink
*TeleFinder
*Red Ryder (software) (early example of donationware)
*White Knight (software)

MS-DOS based

* 1BBS - 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)
*DeusBBS - Written by Simon Giles
*DLX BBS Written by Richard Gillmann (Inner Loop Software)
*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
*Galacticomm - Producers of Major BBS
*Gap
*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 - gorgeous but tricky WWiV hack
*Illusion BBS
*Iniquity BBS
*Infusion BBS
*Impulse BBS
*Insomnia BBS
*Infinity BBS
*Insanity BBS
*Instinct BBS
*Jet BBS
*L.S.D. BBS - Written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG)
*Major BBS
*Maximus
*MAX's BBS and MAX's Pro
*MBBS
*McBBS by Derek E. McDonald
*Mystic BBS
*MikroKom
*NanoBBS
*Nexus BBS
*Oblivion/2
*Opus-CBCS - First written by Wynn Wagner III
*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
*RoboBOARD/FX - Written by Seth Hamilton
*Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)
*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
*Virtual Advanced, also known as VBBS
*ViSiON
*ViSiON-X
*ViSiON/2 "The Revision"
*Waffle - Written by Tom Dell, and supported UUCP (and Fidonet through extensions).
*Wildcat! - Originally by Mustang Software and later sold to Santronics Software, Inc.
*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).
*Zinfandel - an adaptation by Jason Massey of the praiseworthy Citadel-86 code.

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A based

*TIBBS Written by Ralph Fowler.

Multi-platform

*BBBS
*Citadel
*EleBBS
*Synchronet
*Virtual Advanced, also known as VBBS
*PortaCOM

TOPS-10

*QZ KOM

OS/2 based

*AdeptXBBS
*BBBS
*EleBBS
*Maximus
*Virtual Advanced, also known as VBBS
* XBBS - 32-bit platform version of XBBS originally for MS-DOS systems.

Unix based

*Synchronet
*BBBS
*Citadels including Citadel/UX, Dave's Own Citadel
*Drealm
*Eagles BBS - ebbs *nix based
*EleBBS
*Falken BBS - Linux-based
*Firebird - Linux-based
*Maple
*Maximus
*Megistos
*FEWT Software the home of Photon BBS
*ROCAT - The Roman Catacombs
*Sklaffkom - Linux-based
* LysKOM
* Uncensored the home of Citadel/UX

Windows

*BBBS
*EleBBS
*Excalibur BBS
*Synchronet
*Wildcat! - version 5 and later ran on 32-bit Windows
* PowerBBS
* PCBoard

Acorn RiscOS

*ArcBBS

References

External links

* [http://archives.thebbs.org BBS Archives]
* [http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/software.htm Another List of BBS software]