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This is a list of notable dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.

Apple II based


Amiga based


  • 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+) *
  • Excelsior! BBS
  • MAX's BBS by Anthony Barrett
  • MAX's Pro by Nikki Murkett
  • NiKom - by Niklas Lindholm *
  • Transmission Impossible BBS by Lee Bates
  • TransAmiga by Timothy J. Aston (written in BlitzBasic)
  • Xenolink 2 by Xeno Inc

Atari based


  • The ACS BBS (ANTIC BBS)
  • A.M.I.S. BBS (ATARI Message Information Service)
  • ATKeep
  • BBCS (Bulletin Board Construction Set)
  • BBS Express! by Rick Taylor, Keith Ledbetter
  • BBS Express-Professional!
  • Carina
  • F.O.R.E.M. ("Friends of Rick E. Moose")
  • FoReM-XE
  • Oasis IV
  • STadel, a Citadel variant for the Atari ST
  • Titan
  • Titanic

Commodore-based


Paragon BBS Software v1.15 (1992)

CP/M based


Macintosh based


MS-DOS based


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  • 2AM-BBS Written by Neil Clarke, Chris Gorman, and Tom Vogel (2AM Associates)

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B

C

E

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  • Forum PC - One of the most copied BBS sources which spawned a legion of "Forum hacks"
  • Fornax - Written by Minh Ma (aka Briareos)

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  • Hostplus - part of the Telix suite

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  • L.S.D. BBS - Written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG)

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  • Nexus BBS

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P

R

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  • 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 extremely popular on DOS platforms also became the BBS software of choice for sysops using OS/2.

Z

  • Zinfandel - an adaptation by Jason Massey of the praiseworthy Citadel-86 code.

Multi-platform


TOPS-10


OS/2 based


Unix based


Windows


External links


  • The BBS Software Directory is an attempt to create "a canonical list of all the BBS Software Packages there ever were for any platform," including software archives when possible.

Bulletin board system software | Lists of software

 

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the "List of BBS software".

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