List of BBS software

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This is a list of notable dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.^[1]^[2]

For door based games, see Door games

[edit] Apple II based

AppleNet -
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 or MACOS (modified ACOS) language
HotCom - by Hansi
KauCom - by Brendon Woirhaye
Networks II - by Nick Naimo
PEPSI (BBS) - by Bill Wolf & Tod 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
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 RPGD
Warp Six - Applesoft-based BBS program, by Jim Ferr
WAPABBS - Washington Apple PI Users Group BBS
WWIV BBS

[edit] 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
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+)
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
Rapport BBS by Mark Brinicombe and Paul Roberts
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

[edit] 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

[edit] BBC Micro-based

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

[edit] 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
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 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
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

[edit] 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
Bulldog BBS written in BDS C

[edit] Macintosh based

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

[edit] 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)
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
Galacticomm - Producers of Major BBS
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 - 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 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
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).

[edit] Texas Instruments TI-99/4A based

TIBBS Written by Ralph Fowler.

[edit] Multi-platform

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

[edit] TOPS-10

QZ KOM

[edit] OS/2 based

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

[edit] 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
OpenTG - OpenTG (OpenTelegard BBS)

[edit] Windows

BBBS
EleBBS
Excalibur BBS
Synchronet
Wildcat! - version 5 and later ran on 32-bit Windows
PowerBBS
PCBoard
www.Chat Written by Dustin Thomas, Jason Quinn - Never released public but demo is out there.

[edit] Acorn RiscOS

ArcBBS

[edit] References

^ 2005, BBS: The Documentary, Bovine Ignition Systems, directed by Jason Scott
^ Jason Scott (2005), BBS Software Listing, http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/

[edit] External links

[bbsdoc-0] 2005, BBS: The Documentary, Bovine Ignition Systems, directed by Jason Scott

[bbslist-1] Jason Scott (2005), BBS Software Listing, http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/software/

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