Multi-platform

• ATBBS — PHP-based BBS software.
• BBBS
• Citadel
  Citadel (software)
  Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
  
  
• CONFER
  CONFER (software)
  CONFER is one of the first and one of the most sophisticated computer conferencing systems. It was developed in 1975 at the University of Michigan by then graduate student Robert Parnes. The CONFER system continued to be a widely used communication tool until 1999...
  
   — CONFER II on MTS
  Michigan Terminal System
  The Michigan Terminal System is one of the first time-sharing computer operating systems. Initially developed in 1967 at the University of Michigan for use on IBM S/360-67, S/370 and compatible mainframe computers, it was developed and used by a consortium of eight universities in the United...
  
  , CONFER U on Unix
  Unix
  Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
  
  , written by Robert Parnes starting in 1975.
• EleBBS
• IN-MENU — Written in Borland Pascal 7.0 by Viktor Nozhnov. Running on MS-DOS and All Windows.
• PortaCOM
• Synchronet
  Synchronet
  Synchronet is a multiplatform BBS software package, with current ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD variants. Past versions also ran on MS-DOS and OS/2, but support for those platforms has been dropped in recent versions.-History:...
  
  
• Virtual Advanced
  Virtual Advanced
  VBBS is an acronym for Virtual Bulletin Board System. It was a shareware bulletin board system for DOS that was conceived by Roland De Graaf in 1990. Written from scratch in QuickBASIC, it developed a loyal following. Originally it was a door for WWIV, but quickly grew into an original BBS...
  
  , also known as VBBS

Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 based

• 4D-BBS by Dale E. Reed Jr.
• ABBS (a Mike's BBS like system)
• AmBoS by Jörg Eßmann and Kai Szymanski
• Ami-Express
  Amiexpress
  AmiExpress - also known as /X - by Synthetic Technologies was a popular BBS software application for the Commodore Amiga line of computers. AmiExpress was extremely popular among the warez scene for trading software....
  
   aka "/X" (Very popular in the crackers/pirate software scene)
• AmiCon v1 & 2, C language based modular BBS system by Paul Roffey
• Atredes (evolved into Skyline)
• 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+) http://www.cnetbbs.net/
• DayDream BBS by Antti Häyrynen and Mattias Nilsson
• Dialog BBS (which then evolved into DLG BBS)
• DLG Professional BBS
• Excelsior! BBS
• Falcon CBCS a work-a-like of MSDOS Opus-CBCS
• Fastrack
• MAX's BBS by Anthony Barrett
• MAX's Pro by Niki Murkett
• MEBBS
• Metro BBS by Percy L Broadnax
• NiKom — by Niklas Lindholm
• New Touch Pro (NTPro)
• OzMetro BBS — by Peter Deane and Percy L Broadnax
• Paragon BBS by John Radoff (evolved into StarNet BBS then MEBBS)
• Phobos
• Prometheus
• Rapport BBS by Mark Brinicombe and Paul Roberts
• Remote Access by Andrew Milner
• Skyline BBS, featuring Skypix
  Skypix
  Skypix is the name of a Script Markup Language aimed to add rich graphic content such as changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound to Bulletin Board System nodes. The system was born on Amiga Systems in 1987 and available on BBS program called Skyline BBS.Skypix was probably...
  
   Protocol, the first online communication protocol sporting rich graphic content such as changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound
• StarNet by Eric Drewry (which came from Paragon, then later became MEBBS)
• Stormforce BBS by Kris Hudson & Andrew Ward
• System-X by Peter (zed) Zelestny and Michael (rawfox) Clasen
• Tempest BBS by Michael P. Bockert
• Transmission Impossible BBS by Lee Bates
• TransAmiga by Timothy J. Aston (written in BlitzBasic)
• Wildcat BBS by Mustang Software
• Xenolink 2 by Xeno Inc
• Zeus BBS originally by Nick Loman and Alex May

Apple II series

Apple II series

The Apple II series is a set of 8-bit home computers, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer and introduced in 1977 with the original Apple II...

 

• ABBS
• AppleNet
• AcmeNet
• Citamad/Lumadel
• CompuNet
  Compunet
  Compunet was a United Kingdom based interactive service provider, catering primarily for the Commodore 64 but later for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST...
  
  
• DDBBS
• Diversi-Dial
  Diversi-Dial
  Diversi-Dial, or DDial was an online chat server that was popular during the mid-1980s. It was a specialized type of bulletin board system that allowed all callers to send lines of text to each other in real-time, operating at 300 baud...
  
   (DDial) — Chat-room atmosphere supporting up to 7 incoming lines allowing links to other DDial boards.
• EBBS II
• FredMail
• FutureVision — by TC Wilson (aka The Captain) — based on the METAL language
• GBBS
  GBBS
  GBBS is a popular BBS program for the Apple II. Its first series, named GBBS ][, was written in Applesoft and used by boards such as Demon Roach Underground in Lubbock, Texas Its successor, GBBS Pro, was ACOS-based. GBBS-Pro was used by boards like ProBOARD II in Paso Robles, California and Apple...
  
   — Applesoft-based BBS program
• GBBS Pro — based on the ACOS or MACOS (modified ACOS) language
• HBBS — a hi-resolution graphical dial-up BBS and client package for the Apple II — supported threaded, rich media messages including graphics, shapes, sound, fonts, sprites and animation via it's desktop client entitled Pixterm
• Hopscotch
  Hopscotch
  Hopscotch is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone. Hopscotch is a popular playground game.- Court and rules :- The court :...
  
   — by Eric Senior — Written in 6502 assembly, chat system supporting up to 16 users
• HotCom — by Hansi
• KauCom — by Brendon Woirhaye
• Networks II
  Networks II
  Networks II is an Apple II-based single-tasking BBS package, written by Nick Naimo. It is one of the earlier BBS software programs to be written for the Apple II, which was at the time dominated by mini and mainframe-based BBS', including CBBS...
  
   — by Nick Naimo
• Nexus
• People's Message System (PMS)
• Proving Grounds
• METAL BBS — written in a powerful scripting language designed for more than just a BBS
• PBBS
• PEPSI (BBS) — by Bill Wolf & Tod O'Brien — based on MACOS, a hacked & improved version of ACOS
• Prime
  Prime
  A prime is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself.Prime or PRIME may also refer to:In mathematics:*Prime , the ′ mark, typically used as a suffix...
  
  
• ProLine
  Proline
  Proline is an α-amino acid, one of the twenty DNA-encoded amino acids. Its codons are CCU, CCC, CCA, and CCG. It is not an essential amino acid, which means that the human body can synthesize it. It is unique among the 20 protein-forming amino acids in that the α-amino group is secondary...
  
   — by Morgan Davis — popular with many A2 user group BBSs
• The Proving Grounds — A role playing game BBS
• Pseudodel — a Citadel
  Citadel (software)
  Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
  
   variant for the Apple //
• SNAPP
• Tele-Cat — Free, used the Novation Apple-Cat II Modem, supported 1200 bit/s (202-half/212-full duplex), last version was Tele-Cat // 3.0
• 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
• VinyaMicil (VM)

Atari

Atari

Atari is a corporate and brand name owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by Atari Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of the French publisher Atari, SA . The original Atari, Inc. was founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It was a pioneer in...

 

• The ACS BBS (ANTIC BBS)
• A.M.I.S. BBS (ATARI Message Information System
  Atari Message Information System
  The Atari Message Information System was one of the first BBS software packages available for the Atari 8-bit family of computers....
  
  )
• ATKeep
• BBCS (Bulletin Board Construction Set)
• BBS Express! by Rick Taylor, Keith Ledbetter
• BBS Express-Professional!
• Carina
• Carnival (BASIC, first introduced in ANTIC Magazine)
• FaST BBS (Jeff Molofee)
• FoReM BBS ("Friends of Rickey Moose")
• FoReM-XE
• Fox-Box
• Milestone BBS by Ernst Marending
• MiniBBS
• Nite Lite BBS by Paul Swanson
• Oasis IV
• QuickBBS ST
• RATSoft/ST
• Raven of Mystic BBS by David Bolt
• STadel, a Citadel
  Citadel (software)
  Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
  
   variant for the Atari ST
• Titan (Written by Dominic Vaccaro in 1984)
• Titanic
• Turbo BBS (a FoReM clone)
• Transcendence BBS
• Spiffy BBS (ATASCI / ASCII / VT52) for Atari ST (written by Richard Kelsch)

BASIC Stamp

BASIC Stamp

The BASIC Stamp is a microcontroller with a small, specialized BASIC interpreter built into ROM. It is made by Parallax, Inc. and has been popular with electronics hobbyists since the early 1990s because of its low threshold of learning and ease of use due to its simple to understand BASIC...

 

• BasiCDMA — A BBS written to work with the U300 series cell phones (under development)(abandoned as of 3/15/2011)

BBC Micro

BBC Micro

The BBC Microcomputer System, or BBC Micro, was a series of microcomputers and associated peripherals designed and built by Acorn Computers for the BBC Computer Literacy Project, operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation...

 

• 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

Commodore computers

• 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
• A+ BBS Software  by David Culp
• Ace-Line BBS  by Gilligan
• All American BBS  by Nickolai Smith
• All American 128  by Nickolai Smith
• ARB BBS  by Arthur Brock
• Bizarre 64
  Bizarre 64
  Bizarre 64 was a bulletin board system written for the Commodore 64 by Bill Atchison circa 1985 in order to fill the need for a faster and more professional BBS system than was currently available at the time for the Commodore-64 computer system....
  
    by Bill Atchison
• Black Cat BBS or BCBBS by Mike Foerster
• Blue Board
  Blue Board
  Blue Board was a BBS software system created by Martin Sikes for the Commodore 64 in the early 1980s in Vancouver, Canada, and sold worldwide. Due to optimized code and memory allocation, Blue Board boasted very fast performance for a BBS on that hardware platform...
  
   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*Base 128
• C-Net 64  by RM Software (1992–2010)
• C-Net 128  by RM Software (1992–2010)
• C-Net DS2
  C-Net DS2
  C-Net DS2 was a full featured, single-line, Bulletin board system software system released in 1986 for the Commodore 64 microcomputer...
  
    by Jim Selleck
• CCGMS BBS  by Craig Smith
• Centipede BBS by Adam Fanello
• CHATeau
  Château
  A château is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions...
  
    by Eugene Tiffany
• Citadel 64 BBS  by K2NE Software
• Color64
  Color64
  Color64 is a computer BBS system that was very popular for the Commodore 64 during the 1980s. It was written by Greg Pfountz. Color64 was advanced for its time. The I/O was all written in machine language. It was also composed in modules, each written in BASIC. Each module would be loaded into...
  
    by Greg Pfountz
  Greg Pfountz
  Greg Pfountz is an American computer programmer who created the Color64 BBS system. Color64 was a popular BBS system for Commodore 64 computers.-External links:*...
  
  
• 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
  Does the Job BBS
  The DTJ-BBS was a program for the Commodore 64 written by Andrew Bernhardt. The first version was released in 1985, and sold for $35. There were forty DTJ systems before the software changed to freeware in 1989....
  
    by Andrew Bernhardt
• EBBS 64  by Ed Parry
• EBBS 128  by Mike Pugliese
• Electric Magazine  by Bob Shannon
  Bob Shannon
  Robert Lavern Shannon is a former high school football coach best known for coaching the East St. Louis Flyers to six Illinois and two national championship victories. Shannon left East St. Louis in the mid-90s after he became fed up with fiscal mismanagement in the school district...
  
  
• 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
  Ivory BBS
  Ivory BBS is a simple and robust BBS program for the Commodore 64. Known for its default cool blue hues, and limited functionality. E-mail user-to-user, discussion forums, a file transfer area, and of course Sysop Chat...
  
    by Bill Jackson
• Keeper-Line  by Tom Davidson
• Laser 128
  Laser 128
  The Laser 128 was a clone of the Apple II series of personal computers, first released by VTech in 1984. Unlike the Apple II clones from Franklin, VTech reverse-engineered the Apple ROMs using a clean room design rather than copying them...
  
    by Chris Timmerberg
• Lightning BBS
• Matchmaker
• McBBS
  McBBS
  McBBS was a Bulletin Board System developed by Derek E. McDonald and distributed by DMCS Technologies between October 30, 1989 and May 30, 2000 and operated over 18 versions.-History:...
  
    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
• Realm of Shadow  by Lord of Stealth/Moonknight
• 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 Ken Spence/James MacFarlane
• 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

CP/M

CP/M

CP/M was a mass-market operating system created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc...

 

• RBBS
  RBBS-PC
  RBBS-PC was a public domain, open source BBS software program. It was written entirely in QuickBASIC by a large team of people, starting with Russell Lane and then later enhanced by Tom Mack and including Ken Goosens and others.It supported messaging conferences, questionnaires, doors RBBS-PC...
  
   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
  TBBS
  TBBS is a multiline DOS based commercial bulletin board system software package written in 1983 by Philip L. Becker. He originally created the software as the result of a poker game with friends that were praising the BBS software created by Ward Christensen. Mr. Becker said he could do better and...
  
  
• XBBS
• MikroKom
  MikroKOM
  MikroKOM is a KOM style BBS software written in Turbo Pascal. Originally it was written to run under CP/M on a MicroBee 128K, but was later ported to MS-DOS....
  
  
• Bulldog BBS written in BDS C

Apple Macintosh 

• Citadel
  Citadel (software)
  Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
  
  s including Macadel, MacCitadel
• FirstClass
  FirstClass
  FirstClass is a client/server groupware, email, online conferencing, voice/fax services, and bulletin-board system for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux...
  
   (SoftArc)
• Hermes
  Hermes (BBS)
  Hermes Bulletin Board Software was first released in 1989 as one of the early bulletin board system applications available for the Macintosh computer....
  
  
• Mansion
• NovaLink
• TeleFinder
  TeleFinder
  TeleFinder is a Macintosh-based bulletin-board system written by Spider Island Software, based on a client–server model whose client end provides a Mac-like GUI. It appears to be the first such system on any platform, predating Apple's own AppleLink, as well as other Mac-based BBS systems like...
  
  
• Red Ryder Host
  Red Ryder (software)
  Red Ryder was the name of a well known communications and terminal emulation software program created for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. It was one of the first donationware programs to be distributed on the internet...
  
   (early example of donationware)
• Welly

MS-DOS

MS-DOS

MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating...

 and compatible

• 1BBS — Unix-style BBS software 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
  CBBS
  CBBS was a computer software program created by Ward Christensen to allow him and other computer hobbyists to exchange information between one another....
  
   — The first ever BBS software, written by Ward Christensen
  Ward Christensen
  Ward Christensen, born in West Bend, Wisconsin, U.S., is the founder of the CBBS bulletin board, the first bulletin board system ever brought online...
  
  .
• Celerity BBS
  Celerity BBS
  Celerity BBS was a descendant of the freely distributed source of TCS BBS 1.43, and ultimately nearly completely rewritten.-Origin:It originally began as a project of Brendon Woirhaye and David Hicks in 1990 to quickly modify an existing BBS package to meet a simple organizational need , and to...
  
  
• Citadel
  Citadel (software)
  Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
  
  s including DragCit, Cit86, TurboCit, Citadel+
• Computer Information Exchange (CIE)
• Concord BBS — Written by Pasi Talliniemi
• DarkStar BBS — the first full multimedia BBS platform, written by Jerry Thomas Hunter and distributed from 1989 through 1995
• 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
  Ezycom
  Ezycom is a shareware bulletin board system application first introduced for MS-DOS by Peter Davies. It is still in active development and currently being developed by Stephen Gibbs and the Ezycom Development Team. The current version of Ezycom is v2.15g2, which was released on 21st April, 2010...
  
   — Written by Peter Davies
• FerretBBS — Written by Jason Scott
  Jason Scott Sadofsky
  Jason Scott Sadofsky , more commonly known as Jason Scott, is an American archivist and historian of technology. He is the creator, owner and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which...
  
   (www.textfiles.com)
• Fido — Written by Tom Jennings
  Tom Jennings
  Tom Jennings is a Los Angeles-based artist and technician. He is the creator of FidoNet, the first message and file networking system for BBSes...
  
   (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
• Gap
• GBBS
  GBBS (DOS)
  GBBS, or Graphics BBS, was BBS software developed from 1989-1992 by Eric Anderson as part of his thesis at Chisholm Institute of Technology. Although it had superior graphics capabilities compared to RIP, it was harder to integrate into existing BBS's, and so was ultimately less popular.GBBS...
  
   (Graphics BBS) — used in the Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
   area
• Genesis PC BBS — Written in Turbo Pascal 3.0 by Jim Berg and Steven (Kiriwuth) Path
• GT-Power
  GT-Power
  GT Power is a bulletin board system and dial-up telecommunications/terminal application for the DOS family of operating systems. It was first introduced in the 1980s by P & M Software, founded by Paul Meiners...
  
  
• Hostplus — part of the Telix
  Telix
  Telix is a telecommunications program originally written for MS-DOS by Colin Sampaleanu and released in 1986. More recent versions were distributed by deltaComm Development, including a version for Microsoft Windows....
  
   suite
• H-KOM
• Hysteria BBS — tricky WWiV hack
• Illusion BBS
• Iniquity BBS
• Infusion BBS
• Impulse BBS
• Insomnia BBS
• Infinity BBS
• Insanity BBS
• Instinct BBS
• Jet BBS
• Lora BBS
• L.S.D. BBS — Written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG)
• The Major BBS
• Maximus
  Maximus (BBS)
  Maximus is a bulletin board system, originally developed by Scott J. Dudley through his company, Lanius Corporation. The software was first written and released for both MS-DOS and OS/2, with later versions supporting 32-bit Windows operating systems. The MS-DOS version interfaced with the serial...
  
  
• MBBS
• McBBS
  McBBS
  McBBS was a Bulletin Board System developed by Derek E. McDonald and distributed by DMCS Technologies between October 30, 1989 and May 30, 2000 and operated over 18 versions.-History:...
  
   — by Derek E. McDonald
• Mystic BBS
  Mystic BBS
  Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program started in 1994. Mystic is the first DOS-based BBS software program to support a native telnet server...
  
  
• MikroKom
• NanoBBS
• Nexus BBS — Written by George Roberts
• Nochange — by Jim Kloss
• Oblivion/2
• Opus-CBCS
  Opus-CBCS
  The Opus Computer Based Conversation System was a Fidonet Bulletin Board System.Originally developed by Wynn Wagner III in 1985, Opus was one of the leading Bulletin Board Systems during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  
   — First written by Wynn Wagner III
  Wynn Wagner III
  Winfield "Wynn" Wagner is a computer programmer, former broadcast journalist, clergyman and author.-Early career:During the 1980s and 1990s, Wagner was as the author and maintainer of Opus-CBCS, a computer bulletin board system...
  
  
• Oracomm (early) Oracomm Plus (later) — Written by Guy Young
• PCBoard
  PCBoard
  PCBoard was a bulletin board system application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Clark Development Corporation. Clark Development was founded by Fred Clark. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and was considered one of the "high end" packages during the rapid...
  
  
• PegaSys
  PegaSys
  PegaSys was an MS-DOS based BBS software based on Telegard, used in the early 1990s. This system was written and maintained by Andrew Miffleton. It was used on The Echo Chamber, Inacomp, The Dark Alley, The Sensual BBS, The Wormhole and The Atomic Cafe....
  
  
• 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
  Pyroto Mountain
  Pyroto Mountain is an online game based on answering trivia and skill-testing questions. It was originally developed to run as a stand-alone bulletin board system , later as a BBS door, and more recently as a web application.-History:...
  
  
• PoweredBoard
• QuickBBS
  QuickBBS
  QuickBBS was a bulletin board system application first introduced for MS-DOS by Adam Hudson.-External links:** at The BBS Archive...
  
   — Written by Adam Hudson (With assistance by Phil Becker)
• QuiverBBS
• RBBS-PC
  RBBS-PC
  RBBS-PC was a public domain, open source BBS software program. It was written entirely in QuickBASIC by a large team of people, starting with Russell Lane and then later enhanced by Tom Mack and including Ken Goosens and others.It supported messaging conferences, questionnaires, doors RBBS-PC...
  
  
• RemoteAccess
  RemoteAccess
  RemoteAccess is a DOS Bulletin Board System software package written by Andrew Milner and was published by his company Wantree Development in Australia. RemoteAccess was written in Turbo Pascal with some Assembly Language routines. RemoteAccess began in 1989 as a clone of QuickBBS by Adam Hudson...
  
   — Written by Andrew Milner
• Renegade
  Renegade (BBS)
  Renegade is a freeware bulletin board system written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS that gained popularity among hobbyist BBSes in the early to mid 1990s...
  
   — Written by Cott Lang
• Revelation
• RIPterm by TeleGrafix Communications
  TeleGrafix Communications
  TeleGrafix Communications, Inc. was a software company in Huntington Beach, California that developed the Remote Imaging Protocol, the RIPscrip scripting language, the RIPterm terminal emulator, and the RIPaint authoring tool. TeleGrafix published the Remote Imaging Protocol specification in 1991....
  
  
• RoboBOARD/FX
  RoboBOARD/FX
  RoboBOARD/FX was first introduced by Hamilton TeleGraphics Inc, written by the owner Seth Hamilton in 1992.At a time where BBS Software were merely using ANSI art interfaces RoboBOARD started a revolution...
  
   — Written by Seth Hamilton
• SDLX BBS Written by Dustin Thomas, Jason Quinn
• Searchlight BBS
  Searchlight BBS
  Searchlight BBS is a bulletin board system developed in 1985 by Frank LaRosa for the TRS-80.. LaRosa formed a company, Searchlight Software, through which he marketed and sold Searchlight BBS. In 1987, LaRosa expanded the software and sold it as shareware written for the PC in Pascal...
  
   (SLBBS)
• Shotgun BBS — Written by Brent Shellenberg
• Spitfire
  Spitfire (BBS)
  SPITFIRE is a DOS-based Bulletin Board System written by Mike Woltz, published by his company Buffalo Creek Software of West Des Moines, Iowa. SPITFIRE was written in Turbo Pascal with Assembly Language routines...
  
  
• STadel-PC, a PC version of the STadel variant of Citadel
  Citadel (software)
  Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
  
   for the Atari ST
• SuperBBS
  SuperBBS
  SuperBBS is a DOS Bulletin Board System software package written by Aki Antman and Risto Virkkala. It was born as a functional clone of RemoteAccess BBS , but extended the functionality with several newer technology a different way from RA. SuperBBS offered news, email, file sharing, discussion...
  
   by Aki Antman and Risto Virkkala
• TBBS
  TBBS
  TBBS is a multiline DOS based commercial bulletin board system software package written in 1983 by Philip L. Becker. He originally created the software as the result of a poker game with friends that were praising the BBS software created by Ward Christensen. Mr. Becker said he could do better and...
  
  
• Telegard
  Telegard
  Telegard is an early bulletin board system software program written for IBM PC-compatible computers running MS-DOS and OS/2. Telegard was written in Pascal with routines written in C++ and assembly language, based on a copy of the WWIV source code....
  
  
• TriBBS
  TriBBS
  TriBBS is a computer bulletin board system designed for MS-DOS-based computers.-History:TriBBS was written by Mark Goodwin and marketed through his company, TriSoft. TriBBS development was guided primarily by the requests and suggestions of the SysOps who used the program...
  
  
• TPCS
  TPCS
  TPCS is a KOM style BBS software written in C and assembler for MS-DOS....
  
  
• TCL
  The Common Link
  TCL, The Common Link, was a Swedish BBS system developed by Ulf Hedlund in the late 1980's. It was based on the capabilities of the KOM conferencing system used at many Swedish universities, and distinguished itself from the other major FidoNet BBS systems at the time by its support for topic...
  
  
• TAG
  TAG (BBS)
  T.A.G. is a DOS-based bulletin board system software program, released from 1986 to 2000.T.A.G. was written in Borland Pascal and is free for business or personal use ....
  
  
• Tornado BBS
• UBBS
• VDLX BBS Written by Collin Gohl
• Virtual Advanced
  Virtual Advanced
  VBBS is an acronym for Virtual Bulletin Board System. It was a shareware bulletin board system for DOS that was conceived by Roland De Graaf in 1990. Written from scratch in QuickBASIC, it developed a loyal following. Originally it was a door for WWIV, but quickly grew into an original BBS...
  
  , also known as VBBS
• ViSiON
• ViSiON-X — Written by Ed Youssef
• ViSiON/2 "The Revision"
• VorTeX BBS — Written by Jason S. Clary. A protected mode multitasking BBS with a mixed ANSI and vector graphic system using an ANSI-like protocol.
• Waffle
  Waffle (bbs)
  Waffle is a bulletin-board system created by Tom Dell which ran under DOS and later UNIX. The software was unique in many ways, including the fact that all of the configuration files were in readable text files, and that it fully supported UUCP on the DOS platform.A Usenet news group named...
  
   — Written by Tom Dell, and supported UUCP
  UUCP
  UUCP is an abbreviation for Unix-to-Unix Copy. The term generally refers to a suite of computer programs and protocols allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between computers. Specifically, a command named uucp is one of the programs in the suite; it...
  
   (and Fidonet
  FidoNet
  FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems. It was most popular in the early to mid 1990s, prior to the introduction of easy and affordable access to the Internet...
  
   through extensions).
• Wildcat!
  Wildcat! BBS
  Wildcat! BBS was a bulletin board system server application that Mustang Software developed in 1986 for DOS, and later ported to Microsoft Windows. By the release of Version 4 it was the basis for more than 50,000 bulletin board systems worldwide....
  
   — originally by Mustang Software
• Worldgroup — The latest version of MajorBBS, the last released by Galacticomm.
• WWIV
  WWIV
  WWIV was a popular brand of bulletin board system software from the late 1980s through the mid-1990s. The modifiable source code allowed a sysop to customize the main BBS program for their particular needs and aesthetics...
  
   — Written by Wayne Bell, included WWIVNet
  WWIVnet
  WWIVnet was a Bulletin board system network for WWIV-based BBSes. It was created by Wayne Bell on December 1, 1987.-Network layout:WWIVnet consisted of several participating BBSes, each referenced by a unique number called a node number. Originally, WWIVnet nodes were numbered by area code...
  
   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).

OS/2

OS/2

OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal...

 

• AdeptXBBS
  AdeptXBBS
  AdeptXBBS was a BBS originally written explicitly for the OS/2 operating system in 1994. At that time the BBS sub-culture was at its height, and the Internet was emerging...
  
  
• BBBS
• Bulletron http://isaac.idkcomp.com/GENERAL/BULETRON.HTM — Written by Patrick Gleason
• EleBBS
• LoraBBS
• Maximus
  Maximus (BBS)
  Maximus is a bulletin board system, originally developed by Scott J. Dudley through his company, Lanius Corporation. The software was first written and released for both MS-DOS and OS/2, with later versions supporting 32-bit Windows operating systems. The MS-DOS version interfaced with the serial...
  
  
• Oracomm Plus (later) — Written by Guy Young
• PCBoard
  PCBoard
  PCBoard was a bulletin board system application first introduced for DOS in 1983 by Clark Development Corporation. Clark Development was founded by Fred Clark. PCBoard was one of the first commercial BBS packages for DOS systems, and was considered one of the "high end" packages during the rapid...
  
  
• Virtual Advanced
  Virtual Advanced
  VBBS is an acronym for Virtual Bulletin Board System. It was a shareware bulletin board system for DOS that was conceived by Roland De Graaf in 1990. Written from scratch in QuickBASIC, it developed a loyal following. Originally it was a door for WWIV, but quickly grew into an original BBS...
  
  , also known as VBBS
• XBBS — 32-bit platform version of XBBS originally for MS-DOS systems.

Unix

Unix

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

 and compatible

• Synchronet
  Synchronet
  Synchronet is a multiplatform BBS software package, with current ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD variants. Past versions also ran on MS-DOS and OS/2, but support for those platforms has been dropped in recent versions.-History:...
  
  
• BBBS
• Citadel
  Citadel (software)
  Citadel is the name of a bulletin board system software program, and of the genre of programs it inspired. Citadels were notable for their room-based structure and relatively heavy emphasis on messages and conversation as opposed to gaming and files...
  
  s including Citadel/UX, Dave's Own Citadel
• Drealm
• Eagles BBS — ebbs *nix based
• EleBBS
• Falken
  Falken
  For the tire brand, see Falken Tires.Originally created by Herb Rose, Falken BBS was one of the few BBS products which allowed up to 128 users to dial in to a single system using multiport hardware, requiring no external multitasker...
  
   BBS — Linux-based
• Firebird
  Firebird BBS
  Firebird BBS is one of two main telnet-based Bulletin board systems developed in Taiwan. It is also popular in Hong Kong and mainland China. Many derived BBS systems are based on its source code. Some popular sites like SMTH BBS and HKiBBS are using the derived system of the Firebird....
  
   — Linux-based
• iBBS
• Maple
  Maple BBS
  Maple BBS, is one of two main telnet-based Bulletin board systems developed in Taiwan. It is also popular in Hong Kong and mainland China. Many BBS systems are based on its source code....
  
  
• Maximus
  Maximus (BBS)
  Maximus is a bulletin board system, originally developed by Scott J. Dudley through his company, Lanius Corporation. The software was first written and released for both MS-DOS and OS/2, with later versions supporting 32-bit Windows operating systems. The MS-DOS version interfaced with the serial...
  
  
• Megistos
• FEWT Software the home of Photon BBS
• PicoSpan
  PicoSpan
  Picospan was a popular computer conferencing tool written by Marcus D. Watts for the Altos 68000. It was written in 1983, for the most famous and popular computer conferencing system at that time, called M-Net, which was owned and operated by Mike Myers...
  
  
• ROCAT — The Roman Catacombs
• Sauron Linux BBS — www.sauron.org.uk
• Sklaffkom
  Sklaffkom
  SklaffKOM is a KOM style BBS software written by Torbjörn Bååth, Peter Forsberg, Peter Lindberg, Odd Petersson and Carl Sundbom in 1992 and early 1993. Later additions has been made by Daniel Grönjord and Olof Runborg. SklaffKOM was developed under SunOS 5.x and was later run under Interactive...
  
   — Linux-based
• LysKOM
  LysKOM
  LysKOM is a KOM-based conferencing system developed by the Lysator Academic Computer Society at Linköping University and Linköping Institute of Technology. It can be seen as a cross between news and e-mail, but with the presence and speed of IRC or IM-networks. The most common client is the LysKOM...
  
  
• Uncensored the home of Citadel/UX
  Citadel/UX
  Citadel/UX is a collaboration suite that is descended from the Citadel family of programs which became popular in the 1980s and 1990s as a bulletin board system platform. It is designed to run on open source operating systems such as Linux or BSD...
  
  
• OpenTG
  OpenTG
  OpenTelegard/2 is an open-source implementation of a bulletin board system software program written for Linux and/or Unix. Written from scratch in Ruby, the goal is to reproduce the look, feel, and functionality of similar legacy BBS systems such as Telegard or Renegade, which were written for...
  
   — OpenTG (OpenTelegard BBS)

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 

• BBBS
• EleBBS
• Excalibur BBS
  Excalibur BBS
  Excalibur BBS was a Windows-based GUI BBS client, developed by Excalibur Communications. Excalibur was released in 1993, and it has not been officially supported since 1999, when Excalibur Communications ceased operations.- Client Software :...
  
  
• Synchronet
  Synchronet
  Synchronet is a multiplatform BBS software package, with current ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD variants. Past versions also ran on MS-DOS and OS/2, but support for those platforms has been dropped in recent versions.-History:...
  
  
• PowerBBS
• PCBoard
• www.Chat Written by Dustin Thomas, Jason Quinn — Never released public but demo is out there.
• Wildcat! BBS
  Wildcat! BBS
  Wildcat! BBS was a bulletin board system server application that Mustang Software developed in 1986 for DOS, and later ported to Microsoft Windows. By the release of Version 4 it was the basis for more than 50,000 bulletin board systems worldwide....
  
  still actively maintained and developed by Santronics, approaching a 7.0 release, named Wildcat Interactive NET Server.

External links

• BBS documentary site: list of BBS software
• BBS Archives
• Another List of BBS software
• Reviews and Downloads of Commodore BBS software