List of BBS software
This is a list of notable dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.
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Apple II based
- AE (BBS) - one of the original Apple II BBS/Terminal programs
- GBBS Pro - based on the ACOS language
- FutureVison - by TC Wilson (aka The Captain) - based on the METAL language
- PEPSI (BBS) - by TC Wilson (aka The Captain) - based on MACOS, a hacked & improved version of ACOS
- ProLine - by Morgan Davis - popular with many A2 user group BBSs
- ProTerm - by Intrec - (in ProTerm remote mode)
Amiga based
- MAX's BBS by Anthony Barrett
- MAX's Pro by Nikki Murkett
Atari based
- BBS Express!
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
- 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 128 by Adam Fanello
- CHATeau by Eugene Tiffany
- Citadel 64 BBS by K2NE Software
- Color 64 by Greg Pfountz
- Color 64 (128) by Adam Fanello
- Commodore Mania BBS by Don Snider
- Dataquick BBS
- DarkStar BBS by DarkStar Software
- DMBBS by ARTIsoft
- Does the Job BBS by Andrew Bernhardt
- EBBS 64 by Ed Parry
- EBBS 128 by Mike Pugliese
- Electro-Com by Bill Bowers
- Elite BBS by Bill Fink
- Elite Exchange 1 by Stevyn Prothero
- 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
- Laser 128 by Chris Timmerberg
- Lightning BBS
- Matchmaker
- McBBS by McGuire/Theobald
- 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
- 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
- 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
- QBBS (QuickBBS)
- TBBS
- XBBS
Macintosh based
- Citadels including Macadel, MacCitadel
- FirstClass (SoftArc)
- Hermes
- Telefinder
MS-DOS based
C
- Celerity
- Citadels including DragCit, Cit86, TurboCit, Citadel+
E
- EleBBS
- Emulex (later Emulex/2)
- Ezycom
F
- Forum PC - One of the most copied BBS sources which spawned a legion of "Forum hacks"
- Fornax - Written by Minh Ma (aka Briareos)
G
- Ghostship
I
- Iniquity BBS
L
- L.S.D. BBS - Written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG)
M
- Major BBS
- Maximus (BBS)
- MAX's BBS and MAX's Pro
- MBBS
- Mystic BBS [1]
N
- Nexus BBS
O
- Oblivion/2
- Opus BBS - First written by Wynn Wagner III
P
- PCBoard
- PowerBBS
- ProBoard
R
- RBBS-PC
- RemoteAccess (RA) - Written by Andrew Milner
- Renegade
- Revelation
- RoboBOARD/FX - Written by Seth Hamilton
S
- Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)
- Spitfire
T
V
- ViSiON
- ViSiON-X
W
- Waffle - Written by Tom Dell, supported UUCP.
- WildCat!
- Worldgroup - The latest version of MajorBBS (MBBS), the last released by Galacticomm. [3]
- WWIV
Multi-platform
OS/2 based
Unix based
- Citadels including Citadel/UX, Dave's Own Citadel
- Falken BBS - Linux-based
- FirebirdBBS - Linux-based (see http://www.firebird.org.tw)
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.