SuperBBS is a DOS

DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.Related...

 Bulletin Board System

Bulletin board system

A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...

 (BBS) software package written by Aki Antman and Risto Virkkala. It was born as a functional clone of 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...

 BBS (which in turn was a clone of QuickBBS

QuickBBS

QuickBBS was a bulletin board system application first introduced for MS-DOS by Adam Hudson.-External links:** at The BBS Archive...

), but extended the functionality with several newer technology a different way from RA. SuperBBS offered news, email, file sharing, discussion forums, realtime chat etc. and was used in more than 40 countries. It has been distributed as shareware

Shareware

The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...

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SuperBBS supported Hudson type messagebase, USERS.BBS style userbase, flexible menu and textfile options to make the software highly customisable. Supported several style doorway (external) programs and utilities written for QuickBBS, RemoteAccess and ProBoard.

The development ceased when Antman entered the Finnish army in 1993 and decided not to continue the development.