Open Source Windows BBS Software

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.

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!

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.

Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.

YaBB is a FREE Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time and reply to anyone!

Qodem is a a terminal emulator that resembles the BBS-era Qmodem. Includes phonebook, scrollback, capture, X/Y/Zmodem, Kermit, ANSI (+ music) / Avatar / VT102 / Linux emulation, Unicode, and keyboard macros. Connects over serial, ssh, telnet, rlogin.

Viscacha is an innovative Bulletin Board System with an integrated Content Management System.

The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).

Message board originally derived from ASP-DEv Support Forums. These forums are completely database driven and fully customizable. Snitz Forums 2000 can work for your organization to boost customer support and provide a medium of communications for anyone

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.

Apache Answer is an open-source software project under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It empowers you to build a robust question-and-answer (Q&A) platform to thrive your community at ease. Apache Answer is capable for but not limited to: Community Forum: Open discussions and knowledge sharing within your online community. Help Center: Provide a central location for users to find answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) and troubleshoot issues related to your product or service. Knowledge Base: Create a searchable repository of valuable information and best practices for your team or organization. Discover more by yourself.

Eclipse based editor for phpBB MOD files

The Clans was a popular game written for online BBSes back in the day of their great popularity. It is a text-based game featuring inter-BBS communications. It was written initially for Turbo C++, but has been ported to gcc and MSVC

YaBB SE is a PHP/MySQL port of the popular forum software YaBB. The team has rebranded itself under the name Simple Machines and continues to strive to release the best free forum software out there. See www.simplemachines.org

It's simple, php4 + php5 + filebased multiuser blog/guestbook, it's mean that datas (posts, comments, user info) stored in files in csv format. Supported html formatting in post + one level comments

Filemgr a BBS file & .tic tosser for Sysops. Currently written in Turbo Pascal and some assembler under Msdos/Windows & Linux in a Dos Box.

Multiuser BBS/Internet Server Software for multiple platforms including Windows and Linux (legacy versions maintained for DOS and OS/2). Multithreaded modular C/C++ project that includes Telnet, FTP, and Mail servers and support for popular DOS doorgames.

Kusaba X is a continuation of the Kusaba imageboard software, which Trevor has quit supporting. While other Kusaba derivatives are adding more bloat than functionality, Kusaba X is determined on adding functionality first. http://kusabax.cultnet.net

MacphpBBMOD: House all the phpBB modifications developed and written by Mac (phpBB username: ycl6)

Q-Tip PCBoard Professional Bulletin Board System LAMP-Version.Inofficial version of the famous PCBoard(R) DOS BBS Software.Original PCB commands.Conferences, filebases, messagebases, multinode, multiuser, multilingual. And ... multiwindow multithreading.

iBulletin is a new brand of message boards, it features a great index and great speed. iBulletin has a good template and language system. iBulletin will not include useless features that will clutter up the server and slow it down. iB is coded in PHP and

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/

A fully-featured message board system suitable for smaller web sites. Build a virtual online community where users can post and reply to anyone! Simple, fast and efficent. It is coded in PHP and uses an SQLite database.

An ANSI drawing tool supporting most formats (ANSI/ASCII), AVATAR, BINARY, PCBOARD. It does support TheDrawFonts file too. It will be a replacement for the good old dos based TheDraw and it is designed in the spirit of ACiD Draw

Warning: It has be 5 years since this project was completed. PhpBB3 has probably moved on and this is no longer actively tested. Use at your own risk. There is a ticket system if you see issues. Naruto is a web service that makes web site and application integration with message boards much easier and even allows the message board to be remotely hosted. Supported message boards include PhpBB3.