Open Source BBS Software
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SyncTERM
Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal
A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL. -
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phpBB
phpBB is the world's leading open source discussion forum software.
phpBB is the world's leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in today's top of the line software. -
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AJAX Chat - Open Source Web Chat
Fully customizable web chat created using AJAX.
MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance. -
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Qsampler
A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface
Qsampler is a linuxsampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. For the moment it just wraps the client interface of LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP) (http://www.linuxsampler.org). -
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Simple Forum Auto Poster is a program that automatically posts messages to forums. This program is for people active on multiple forums, but don't want to type and copy/paste the same message multiple times.
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The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).
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MBSE BBS for Linux & Unix
MBSE BBS is a full FTN-capable ANSI BBS and mailer package.
MBSE BBS is a fully FTN-capable ANSI BBS package including a mailer (ifcico clone), BinkP daemon, mail tosser, TIC processor, filefind, and other utilities allowing access via modem and the Internet using telnet, ssh, http and ftp. Support is offered through the Fidonet MBSE echo and the Micronet MIN_BBS echo. -
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TundraDraw is a cross-platform ANSI drawing program written with C++, using the Qt Toolkit. Thus, it runs natively on both X environments and Windows. It features network connectivity to allow artists to draw together over the Internet.
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FreeDoor is a 32-bit BBS Door Development Kit for Windows and OS/2. All up-to-date information and future releases are available from http://www.elysoft.net/
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ACiD View 6 is is a multimedia viewer for Windows. Its the first to support a variety of both textmode and bitmap graphic formats such as ANSI/ASCII, XBIN, GIF, JPEG and PNG. Additional features include a modem-speed simulator, VGA previewing and more!
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Internet Discussion Boards is a message board system by Game Maker 2k. Its very easy to set up. Your web host needs PHP and CUBRID / MySQL / MariaDB / PostgreSQL / SQLite. Internet Discussion Boards is Open Source so you can make changes to it.
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Elite Bulletin Board
simple but advanced bulletin board
Elite Bulletin Board is an advanced Bulletin Board program that provides advanced features such as CAPTCHA, sub-board, skinning ability, multilingual and much more. This project has been archived and the code lives here for historic-purposes only. -
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Synchronet BBS Utilities
Suite of utilities for Linux SBBS Operators
Makes running a Synchronet BBS on Linux easier. Includes a backup script, management console, startup script, and other useful utilities. Only tested on Ubuntu... Now designed to run as the user "bbsowner" rather than root. No need to use sudo command anymore. -
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my little forum is on GitHub now: https://github.com/ilosuna/mylittleforum
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ABC projectis a software solution that monitors project costs and expenses. whether you're a leader in your field today or just on your way to becoming one, abc project can help increase your profits and provide improved project control.
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"Project EROS" is a collection of software which includes a web application framework for developing intranet and extranet applications (bbsengine), as well as example applications to demonstrate the available functionality.
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ReloadCMS is a free CMS written on PHP and based on flat files. It does not need any DB installed(!) and realise all abilities of high-level CMS like modularity, templates, users management, advanced rights system and package of main modules.
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A multiplayer RPG that connects as a psuedo server to an IRCD. Built in the tradition of old BBS Door games such as LORD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon). Forest fights add experience and gold needed to best your master (gain level
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FUNterm is a serial port terminal program for Windows. It offers basic serial connection. Because FUNterm is written using basic Win32 calls, with no high-level libraries, it works under Linux using Wine. The serial driver can be used separately.
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Simple Ptt Client
用來上 Ptt 的小程式
讓你可以暢遊 Ptt.cc ! -
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Shoutbox clone with some awesome features Project is unfortunately freezed. Maybe it'll go on in some time...
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