Maximus was one of the premier BBS packages of the early 90s, developed by Scott Dudley and Lanius Corporation. It supported FidoNet messaging, file transfers, MEX scripting, and all the features that made BBSing great. The source was released under GPL after Lanius ceased operations.
This fork focuses on getting Maximus compiling and running on modern systems - particularly macOS (including ARM64/Apple Silicon) - so folks who want to relive the BBS days or run a retro board can actually do so without hunting down a DOS emulator or vintage hardware.
Social media de-imagined. Use your words!
A quiet corner of the internet where you can think, write, read and connect. Like how the internet was supposed to be.
A portable file-sharing system built on NodeMCU ESP8266 that creates a wireless access point and serves a web interface for accessing digital documents and hosting discussions.
Hardware Requirements: NodeMCU ESP8266, Micro SD Card Module, Micro SD Card (Max 32GB), Power source (USB power bank or similar), Required wiring/jumpers.
Wireless Access Point - No password required. Auto-redirects through captive portal. Custom landing page.
File Management - Supports PDF, EPUB, DOC, RTF, TXT formats. Files organized alphabetically. Collapsible file groups by first letter. File count per letter group.
Allow uploading files of supported formats.
Forum System Thread creation and management - Post creation within threads, 1-hour auto-cleanup of forum content, automatic thread refresh.
Golden Point is a FidoNet (FTN) point package written with in Golang to provide a mailer, tosser and other related utilities. To work with GoldenPoint after starting you will need to open your browser on address http://127.0.0.1:8080
Implements a Binkp/1.0 mailer, the basic FidoNET technical standards and control messages, and traffic tracking.
This web site is the home of the Hermes BBS package. Hermes was created in 1988 by Will Price under the company name AOC Software. It was subsequently owned and managed by 3 other parties from 1992-2024. In June 2024, Hermes was re-acquired by the original creator. Over time, this website will serve as a historical archive of Hermes BBS systems, software, source code, and information.
Hermes is now both free and open source. See the Downloads page for an archive of releases. More of the original source code is planned for release over time including the innovative serial number system.
Github: https://github.com/malyn/HermesBBS
For Classic Mac OS (System 6 and 7) computers. You will need a copy of THINK Pascal 4.0.2 in order to compile Hermes. The build environment is designed for a PowerPC-based Mac OS X computer with a full Classic install.
An archive of some older releases of the Hermes BBS software, which had a look and feel very much like the Renegade BBS software but was written for Mac OS.
The Super Dimension Fortress is a networked community of free software authors, teachers, students, researchers, hobbyists, enthusiasts and the blind. It is operated as a federally recognised non-profit 501(c)7 and is supported by its members.
Our mission is to provide remotely accessible computing facilities for the advancement of public education, cultural enrichment, scientific research and recreation. Members can interact electronically with each other regardless of their location using passive or interactive forums. Further purposes include the recreational exchange of information concerning the Liberal and Fine Arts.
Members have access to games, email, usenet, chat, bboard, gopherspace, webspace, programming utilities, archivers, browsers, and more. The SDF community is made up of caring, highly skilled people who operate behind the scenes and in the underground to maintain a non-commercial INTERNET.
The Oasis BBS is a Commodore 64 BBS run from 1985 to 1990. At the time it was on the bleeding edge of Commodore technology running the Color 64 BBS software along with a 2400 baud connection and 80 megabytes of storage via the Lt Kernal hard drive platform. After 28 years we're back online and available as a Telnet BBS. In addition the site has grown to include a website and social media. Welcome 'Back' to the Cool Pool!
Simple minimodem BBS with a 3d printed acoustic coupler case. The acoustic coupler was designed to hold a USB speaker and microphone, which you can buy from Adafruit.
Requires Linux. PJSUA and minimodem must be installed. The BBS uses shell scripts and javascript to relay messages via minimodem over VoIP. On the server side, start PJSUA then start the phoneMonitor.sh script. Minimodem is set to run at 100bps. Edit the shell scripts if you want to change the baud. You will need to edit the clientSide.sh script, minimodem -A alsa option should match your USB microphone and speaker. Use arecord -l and aplay -l linux commands to find their card numbers.
This repository contains tools releated to BBSing and Ansi in general. It contains:
- Icy Term, a terminal program for legacy BBS systems.
- Icy Draw, a drawing tool supporting almost all ANSI formats.
- Icy View, a viewer to browse/view Ansi screens.
- Icy Play, a tool that shows icy draw animations on cmd line/bbs.
An ALPHA grade bulletin board system (BBS) implementation for Reticulum networks. RetiBBS allows users to communicate through message boards in a secure manner. User authentication and authorization with Reticulum. Multiple message boards support. User display names. Admin privileges for board management. Simple text-based command interface
I wonder if it could be run over Veilid.
While xthulu is intended to be a community server with multiple avenues of interaction (e.g. terminal, browser, REST API), its primary focus is to provide a modern SSH terminal interface which pays homage to the bulletin boards of the 1990s. Rather than leaning entirely into DOS-era nostalgia, modern character sets (UTF-8) and terminal capabilities are taken advantage of.
A bulletin board system that enables radio amateurs to read and store messages at your station. It generally adopts conventions common to other popular packet BBS systems. Send and receive messages by callsign, send private messages, plugin architecture.
Doesn't actually have any networking code, it relies upon external software (the docs namecheck ax25d, but possibly any other utility which takes its input on stdin and prints to stdout (like go-sendxmpp?) might work).
A BBS server for Meshtastic for posting bulletins, sending mail to users, and channel directory. Tries to work like most ax.25 packet radio BBSes. Requires access to a Meshtastic node for access to the network and the node ID of at least one other TC2 BBS to plug itself into the network.
Frozen intends to be a radio BBS optimized for slow connections. This is the very beginning of the project. The current status is that Frozen has a working message board, an admin tool to manage data, a terminal client to interact with the BBS, and a (very crummy!) connection to Meshtastic radios.
Now has a bill of materials for constructing your own server.
Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII artpacks. The artform was originally intended for display on computer textmode consoles. It gained popularity in the early nineties with the rise of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBS).
At one point artists started to group together and release their work in collections released monthly, these collection are called artpacks. Rivalry resulted in fierce competition between these artgroups which only boosted activity. ACiD and iCE are examples of early prominent groups.
The rise of the Internet in the late nineties started the decline of BBS's and thus also the need and interest for ANSI/ASCII art. And although the need has almost vanished, still today artists are producing artpacks in collectives. Sixteen Colors aims to collect these artpacks as an archive in the public interest.
Running on an 8MHz Mac Plus.
Web client, telnet, actual dialup (1-312-654-0090).
2600.network is a public service for dial-up users. It's purpose is to allow users of old, vintage, and outdated hardware to dial in with real modems to real systems.
ENiGMA½ is a modern BBS software with a nostalgic flair!
Multi platform - Anywhere Node.js runs likely works. Unlimited multi node support. Highly customizable via HJSON based configuration, menus, and themes in addition to JavaScript based mods. MCI support for lightbars, toggles, input areas, and so on plus many other other bells and whistles. Telnet, SSH, and both secure and non-secure WebSocket access built in! Additional servers are easy to implement. SyncTERM style font and baud emulation support. Display PC/DOS and Amiga style artwork as it's intended! In general, ANSI-BBS / cterm.txt / bansi.txt are followed for expected BBS behavior.
Renegade style pipe color codes. SQLite storage of users, message areas, etc. Strong PBKDF2 backed password hashing. Support for 2-Factor Authentication with OTP. Door support including common dropfile formats for legacy DOS doors. Built in BBSLink, DoorParty, and Exodus! Message networks with FidoNet Type Network (FTN) + BinkleyTerm Style Outbound (BSO) message import/export. Messages Bases can also be exposed via Gopher or NNTP as well. ANSI support in the Full Screen Editor (FSE), file descriptions, etc.
Three traditional BBS-circulated documents about the QWK format, based on reverse engineering; the official spec, excerpted from the documentation of 1stReader; and the official QWKE specification, all re-formatted with Markdown. Although I consider some of this material to be inaccurate, I’ve tried to avoid editing for content, except to remove references to web sites, boards and addresses that are no longer working.