wiktionary BBSBBS may refer to Technologies Bulletin board system Bulletin Board System , a computer that allows users to dial into the system over a phone line or telnet connection BIOS Boot Specification , a system firmware specification related initial program load IPL AKA booting Blum Blum Shub , a pseudorandom number generator Organizations BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG , a high performance automobile wheel manufacturer Bankenes Betalingssentral , a Norwegian bank clearing company Bloomsburg and Sullivan Railroad British Blind Sport , a British sporting charity for people who are visually impaired Science Brittle Bone Society , a British medical research charity Bardet Biedl syndrome , a genetic disorder Bogart Bacall Syndrome , a vocal misuse disorder named after Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall Behavioral and Brain Sciences , a peer reviewed journal Breeding Bird Survey , which monitors the status and trends of bird populations Culture Baton Broadcast System , a system of Canadian television stations Bhutan Broadcasting Service , the national radio and television service in Bhutan BBS Productions , highly influential film production company of early 1970s New Hollywood Bender s Big Score , the first full length Futurama movie Boom Boom Satellites , a Japanese electronic music duo Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep , a videogame for the PlayStation Portable Be back soon, an Internet slang Other Bachelor of Business Studies , an academic degree Bachelor of Business Statistics , an academic degree BBs , another name for airsoft gun pellets. Bronze Bauhinia Star , the lowest rank in Order of the Bauhinia Star, an honours system Hong Kong Blue Back Square , a shopping center in West Hartford, Connecticut disambig cs BBS de BBS eo BBS fr BBS ko BBS it BBS disambigua hu BBS egy rtelm s t lap nl BBS ja BBS pl BBS ro BBS ru BBS tr BBS zh BBS ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Firebird BBS is one of two main telnet based Bulletin board system s 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. See also Maple BBS Maple DEFAULTSORT Firebird Bbs Category Bulletin board system software Network software stub zh Firebird BBS ... more details
Infobox company company name BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG company type Public ISIN DE0005196232 foundation .... Euro 2006 homepage http www.bbs.com Image Porsche 996 Front Right .jpg thumb BBS wheels on a Porsche 911 GT3 Coupe. BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik Aktiengesellschaft AG English Language English BBS Automotive ... in Schiltach , Germany . BBS serves North America through BBS of America, located in Braselton, Georgia , adjacent to the Road Atlanta Racetrak. BBS produces wheels for motorsport, Original Equipment ... 1,200 employees worldwide 2007 . Citation needed date October 2009 BBS trades on the Frankfurt ... q?s BKS3.DE Yahoo Finance UK . Retrieved on 2007 03 08 ref History BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik AG began ... auto body parts. The initials BBS are based on the last names of the two founders and the city in which the company was founded Baumgartner, Brand, Schiltach . ref name BBS http www.bbs.com BBS Homepage . Retrieved on 2007 03 08 ref In 2007 BBS went bankrupt and was taken over by the Belgian ... wheel manufacturer BBS accessdate 2008 04 11 year 29 06 2007 work punchinternational.com ref Technology In 1972 BBS pioneered the development of a three piece racing wheel, a revolution in motorsport design. ref name BBS Most recently BBS has engineered the Air Inside Technology AIT where hollow ... without sacrificing strength and rigidity. This innovation has earned BBS Kraftfahrzeugtechnik the Automechanika ... Awards August 16, 2006. Retrieved on 2007 03 08 ref BBS entered into a technical cooperation ... manufactures the BBS F1 Magnesium wheel and All racing Aluminum wheels. ref http translate.google.com ... 7Cen&hl en&ie UTF8 Washibeam manufacturing BBS wheels ref Since BBS is a customer of Washibeam, manufacture of the wheel will not be discontinued if BBS goes bankrupt. ref http translate.google.com ... BBS is a exclusive customer for Washibeam ref BBS has and continues to supply OEM wheel applications ... BBS forged cross spoke aluminium wheel 1991.jpg thumb BBS forged aluminium cross spoke wheel from a 1992 ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 Maple BBS, is one of two main telnet based Bulletin board system s developed in Taiwan . It is also popular in Hong Kong and mainland China . Many derived BBS system is based on its source code. See also Firebird BBS Firebird DEFAULTSORT Maple Bbs Category Bulletin board system software Network software stub ... more details
auctions , BBS lists, and parting comments from the most recent BBS callers. A front door operates in the opposite manner from most doors instead of being launched by the BBS, the front door handles call answering and allows non BBS calls to be dealt with. This allowed BBSes to accept messages and files ... of the recipient s BBS. Another type of door compiles and transfers BBS messages for the use of offline ... messagebase. Sysop s who were away from the physical BBS sometimes have the capability ... prompt , and the specialized editing programs that administered the BBS. DOORWAY could also be utilized to safely make certain text mode DOS games playable by BBS users, using various command line ... BBS Archives Huge collection of BBS Doors and related files dmoz Games Online BBS Doors BBS doors http www.BBSfiles.com BBSFiles.com &mdash door games, utilities, and forums References ... more details
Primary sources date November 2009 Infobox software name Searchlight BBS logo screenshot caption collapsible author Frank LaRosa developer Searchlight Software 1987&ndash 1998 TeleGrafix Communications released 1985 Start date YYYY MM DD discontinued latest release version 5.1 latest release date February 6, 1999 ref http web.archive.org web 20011217063957 telegrafix.com products searchlight index.htm ref latest preview version latest preview date Start date and age YYYY MM DD frequently updated programming language TRS 80 BASIC Microsoft Level III BASIC Turbo Pascal operating system DOS platform IBM PC compatible TRS 80 size language English language English status Discontinued genre Bulletin board system license Shareware website Searchlight BBS is a bulletin board system BBS developed in 1985 ... First Searchlight BBS ref . 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 ... of Searchlight BBS included a full screen text editor, a remote DOS Shell computing shell , and file transfer via the XMODEM protocol. Searchlight BBS rapidly grew in popularity, and appeared frequently in Boardwatch magazine and at BBS conventions across the United States. Eventually, Searchlight BBS supported FidoNet , ZMODEM , Internet e mail and telnet connectivity. In 1995 LaRosa began ... Software sold Searchlight BBS, along with Spinnaker Web Server, to TeleGrafix Communications in 1998 ... Reflist External links http slbbs.com The Searchlight BBS Support Page http darkrealms.servebbs.org Darkrealms, a large BBS running Searchlight http franklarosa.com Frank LaRosa s Personal Homepage Creator of Searchight Software http www.telnetbbsguide.com Telnet BBS Guide http archives.thebbs.org The BBS Archives http www.archive.org details bbs documentary BBS Documentary Video Collection Internet Archive http bbslist.textfiles.com The TEXTFILES.COM Historical BBS List dmoz Computers Bulletin ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 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 The Byter and David Hicks Moebius in 1990 to quickly modify an existing Bulletin board system BBS package to meet a simple organizational need separate conferences for IBM PC users and Amiga users , and to meet the needs of high speed 9600 bit s communication, as most BBSes of the time could not pump data to the modem quickly enough. The I O and display subsystems were rewritten, and the BBS package got its name. Use It wasn t long before others became interested in the BBS software, and it went on to have over 500 authorized BBSes and about three times that number using it in an unauthorized manner. It was very popular in the underground pirate, hacking, and phreaking community as well as with legitimate systems, including church BBSes, non profit group BBSes, many shareware distribution systems, and a governmental BBS in Portugal. Features Celerity BBS had over 50 discrete releases between 1990 and 1995, and pioneered a number of new technologies which were not commonly seen, including split screen multiuser chat 8 node maximum , a file distribution network, an early liveupdate system where BBS updates were distributed, a cross BBS message board and email network CelerityNet, adopted by some non Celerity BBS programs , QWK offline reader support, the ability to completely change the look and feel of the system, geek speak mode that transformed normal text to leet g33 5p33k , and early internet File Transfer Protocol FTP and Telnet connectivity. Alacrity Alacrity BBS was a premium version of Celerity BBS which was not broadly distributed. Its most notable feature was an AI sysop chat which incorporated ELIZA style logic, sprinkled with references to current posts on the message boards and recently uploaded files. DEFAULTSORT Celerity Bbs Category Bulletin ... more details
Infobox Software name Mystic BBS collapsible author developer released latest release version latest release date latest preview version latest preview date frequently updated programming language operating system DOS , Microsoft Windows Windows , OS 2 , Linux platform size language status genre Bulletin board system BBS license Proprietary software Proprietary freeware website http www.mysticbbs.com Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system computer program software program started in 1994. Mystic is the first DOS based BBS software program to support a native telnet server. It has since been ported to Microsoft Windows , OS 2 and Linux . Some of the more notable features of Mystic BBS include Proprietary scripting programming language scripting language called Mystic Programming Language MPL . Dynamic menus and fully customizable command prompt prompt s. Multiple user selectable theme computer themes . BBS door DOOR32 support James Coyle was one of the original authors of DOOR32 . Automatic random ANSI art ANSI display i.e. tt ansi.ans tt , tt ansi.an1 tt , tt ansi.an2 tt , etc would display randomly . A fully featured ACS access control system . Telnet server Advanced, feature rich message base system Linux distributions available Attracted to the flexibility and potential that the scripting language provides, a number groups, such as ACiD Productions ACiDic BBS modding , Cyberia, Demonic, DoRE, Vanguard, wOE mODDING and Wicked formed for the sole purpose of writing BBS modding mods for SysOp s who run Mystic. External links http www.mysticbbs.com Mystic BBS website http www.thuglife.org ... wOEzine, December 1998 BBS That Run Mystic telnet blackthursday.net Black Thursday BBS Run by skatter since the late 90s telnet nnl.darktech.org Never Never Land BBS 419 area code oldest bbs since 91 telnet clutch.darktech.org Clutch BBS Originally launched in 95 telnet d1st.org Distortion BBS telnet mythology.darktech.org Mythology BBS Originally launched in 94 network software stub Category Bulletin ... more details
ZOOiD BBS the zoo of ids, or alternatively referencing zooid was a Toronto area Bulletin board system in 1986 1993 that served a creative community. The sysop was http zooid.org vid David H. Mason , assisted by several others. Among its members was Rasmus Lerdorf . Initially a Commodore 64 based Bulletin board system BBS running Spence BBS software , it became the development site for M1 BBS software , which eventually expanded to about 13 systems before ZOOiD switched to Waffle bbs Waffle , and then Xenix to support UUCP and multiple phone lines. In 1993, ZOOiD merged with R Node to become Internex Online , the first consumer ISP Internet Service Provider in Canada. Category Bulletin board systems ... more details
Infobox film name BBS The Documentary image BBS Documentary.jpg caption DVD cover for BBS The Documentary director Jason Scott Sadofsky producer Nicole Sparks writer Jason Scott Sadofsky starring music cinematography editing Jason Scott Sadofsky distributor released May 2005 runtime language English budget BBS The Documentary commonly referred to as BBS Documentary is a 3 disc, 8 episode documentary film documentary about the subculture born from the creation of the bulletin board system BBS filmed by computer historian Jason Scott Sadofsky of textfiles.com . Production work began in July 2001 and completed in December 2004. The finished product began shipping in May 2005. Although the documentary was released under the Creative Commons Attribute ShareAlike 2.0 License ref cite web url http www.jimgilliam.com 2005 06 new bbs documentary released under creative commons.php title New BBS documentary released under Creative Commons publisher Jimgilliam.com date 2005 06 03 accessdate 2009 08 10 ref , meaning that anyone can legally download it for free, Jason Scott Sadofsky has made it known that the downloadable version is only a taste of the full experience and recommends that individuals ... used and operated BBSes 44 44 Disc 2 Make it Pay the BBS industry of the 1980s and 90s 46 48 FidoNet ... of the ANSI art ANSI Art Scene which thrived in the BBS world 42 41 Disc 3 HPAC Hacker computer ... BBSes 38 22 No Carrier the end of the dial up BBS and its integration into the Internet ... easter egg s. References reflist External links http www.bbsdocumentary.com BBS The Documentary official website Imdb title id 0460402 title BBS The Documentary 2005 http youtube.com watch?v A85RJMhB8 ... details BBS.The.Documentary BBS The Documentary at the Internet Archive http moonbooks.net download movie bbs the documentary.html Download BBS The Documentary in DPG format for the Nintendo DS, as well as MP4 format DEFAULTSORT Bbs The Documentary Category 2005 films Category American films Category ... more details
Excalibur BBS was a Microsoft Windows Windows based GUI Bulletin board system 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 Users connected to the BBS by modem or over a TCP IP connection with the Excalibur Client. For its time, the client provided a rich graphical environment allowing users access to instant messaging , message boards , and world wide web web like hyperlinked navigation screens. Excalibur provided the platform for add on functions called plugins. These plugins included games with without animation sound and expanded functions for file searches, local and Internet E Mail, Fido net, Who s on, chat, change handle password, edit your account info etc. Some systems used wave files for background music incorporating a jukebox like interface with multiple music choices. Others used very clever screen changes to provide different degrees of visual input. Multiple themes for low, medium and high end graphics cards. The original program was written in Borland C by Tim Robinson, who is also the originator of the 99 Bottles of Beer website. Though official support ceased in 1999, several Excalibur BBS s have continued to provide support and information via web and BBS. The number one hit searching for Excalibur http www.chevychase.com excalibur.html The Flagship Excalibur Information Server and Web Site http tecmecca.ath.cx great setup info and walkthroughs, BBS list and client terminals tecmecca.ath.cx caller needs client terminal The oldest BBS in Arizona http frankenserver.org client terminals,lost license help, new license access and BBS list Since 1983 burmacave.ath.cx caller needs client terminal Several plugin ... Excalibur s Entry at the BBS Software Directory http www.never enuff.com Never Enuff B.B.S. A surviving Excalibur BBS network software stub Category Bulletin board system software Excalibur BBS ... more details
Advert date December 2007 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 forum s, a file transfer area, and of course Sysop Chat . Easy to operate flip one of the dip switch dip switches on your 1200 baud modem to auto answer, load the program, publish your phone number on other BBSes, and you re in business. External links http www.zimmers.net bbs ivbbs.html Category Bulletin board system software Category Commodore 64 software network software stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 BDWM Simplified Chinese pinyin b id w im ng BBS is the official Bulletin board system BBS of Peking University , and it s one of the most popular bulletin board system sites among the universities in China. It was founded in 2000, and was famous for opening to all kinds of deep topics, especially in the board Triangle , which is named after a bulletin place inside the campus. External links http bbs.pku.edu.cn BDWM BBS http www.pku.edu.cn Peking University Internet stub China university stub Category Peking University ... more details
ExecPC is an online service provider started in 1983 by owner Bob Mahoney as the Exec PC BBS . It quickly ... . ref http www.localnet.com releases1.phtml Retrieved 12 July 2007 ref History The Exec PC BBS Image Exec pc bbs.PNG thumb Exec PC BBS 300 px The Exec PC BBS launched on November 28, 1983 in the den of owner Bob Mahoney. Known primarily for its extensive shareware software archives, the BBS also offered E mail , message forums, and BBS door games to paying subscribers. ref name bbsdocu Jason Scott Sadofsky July 2001 December 2004 , BBS The Documentary 3 DVDs ref As the file archives grew in size ... keyword a common feature today, but rare at the time. Mahoney became one of the earliest BBS operators to begin charging a fee for access to a BBS. The Exec PC BBS grew to over 250 lines, with over 300 GB of file storage at its peak in the mid 90s. Callers could connect to the Exec PC BBS via ... fee. In 1996, the file collection of the Exec PC BBS was placed on the world wide web through ... Internet services, but the BBS still remains accessible via telnet on the Internet at bbs.execpc.com. Exec PC Chat One of the major missing features of the Exec PC BBS was the ability to speak with other members of the service in chat rooms . Instead of building chat functionality into the BBS, Mahoney created a separate system, Exec PC Chat , which ran alongside the Exec PC BBS. This system was a Major BBS based system with 48 lines. While popular, the chat system did not prove to be profitable ... built Internet functionality into the Exec PC BBS in 1994. When calling into certain numbers known as gold nodes, the BBS member was connected to an Internet shell account on servers run by IBM s VNET ... to Point Protocol PPP . Unlike the BBS, ExecPC Internet provided service exclusively to individuals ... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article DEFAULTSORT Execpc Bbs Category Bulletin board systems ... more details
Renegade is a freeware bulletin board system BBS written for IBM PC compatible computers running MS DOS that gained popularity among hobbyist BBSes in the early to mid 1990s. It was originally written by Cott Lang in Pascal programming language Pascal , based on the source code of Telegard , which was in turn based on the earlier WWIV . On April 23, 1997, after the decline of BBS popularity, Lang ceased development work on Renegade and passed it on to two Renegade BBS utility authors Patrick Spence and Gary Hall. Spence and Hall maintained Renegade for three years, releasing three updates with their new, ISO 8601 Ordinal dates ordinal date version scheme. Jeff Herrings, another former third party software developer, was handed the source by Spence in January of 2000 after offering help when he found there was no Year 2000 problem Y2K compliant version of the software. Herrings released a public alpha version of Renegade in March of 2000 addressing Y2K compliance problems. He stepped down as active programmer in October of 2001 citing lack of time and desire. Herrings released his Y2K compliant source code to the public via the Dreamland BBS in September of 2005 and stated he did so because he felt betrayed by Patrick Spence regarding a personal matter and as such felt it was right ... then added the help of Chris Hoppman, one of the few remaining Renegade BBS operators around ... BBS code. Version 1.10 DOS, an update to version 1.00 DOS, was released on October 03, 2009. BBSs running Renegade http renegadebbs.info telnet.html The Titantic BBS Telnet , Home of the Renegade BBS Software http www.darkrealms.ca Darkrealms , a Renegade BBS in Toronto Canada. telnet blues.zapto.org The Realms of Blue BBS , Started in Goose Creek, SC in 1993 1996, moved to Maryland in 1997. The board ... BBS References ref http renegadebbs.info The Renegade BBS Home , http www.bbsdocumentary.com software IBM DOS RENEGADE The BBS Documentary s BBS Software Directory &ndash Renegade ref references Category ... more details
MBBS Mike s BBS was a popular Bulletin board system BBS system in the Nordic countries during the mid 1990s. It was created by a team of Oslo based enthusiasts, led by Mike Robertson programmer Mike Robertson . As many BBS systems of that era, it was only available for the DOS platform. Since one process could only handle one node, computer multitasking multitaskers such as DESQview or Microsoft Windows were necessary in order to run multi node BBSes. MBBS had to use the only viable means of interprocess communication under DOS, namely to read and write to a set of files in a common subdirectory. Since these files were accessed very often, many SysOp s moved them to a RAM disk . MBBS user interface was a command line interface where commands could be stacked . This means that instead of typing a command, being asked to supply some parameters, and then typing another command, one could type them on one command line separated by a space or semicolon. An example is code m sa g y code , which expands to marks, save message pointers, goodbye, yes . This user interface was copied in Kim Heino s later BBBS software BBBS system, to the degree that most valid MBBS command strings do the same in BBBS. MBBS was released as uncrippled shareware by Gallagher & Robertson . It is now discontinued, and its final version, 10.4, was released in 1996. Mike s BBS was also the name of the MBBS run BBS, operated by Mike Robertson, which in many ways served as a social hub of the Norwegian BBS community of the 1990s. REFERENCES An example of a BBS list from the mid 90s, showing MBBS popularity http www.fou.uib.no fd 1998 h 710001 bbs9501.txt Category Bulletin board system software fr Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery no MBBS si fi MBBS sv MB BS ... more details
SPITFIRE BBS 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. It was released in 1987 under the Shareware concept and had a moderate sized fanbase, only outnumbered by products such as RemoteAccess , TriBBS , PCBoard , Major BBS , and Wildcat BBS . It was possible to run multiple nodes of SPITFIRE under Microsoft Windows and OS 2 although, most SysOp s preferred to use Quarterdeck s DESQview for this purpose. SPITFIRE interfaced with message relaying systems such as FidoNet through 3rd party utilities such as SHILOH, a QWK networking interfacing program, and BCSUTI, a Postlink style networking interface. SPITFIRE s most successful release Version 3.2 came in 1992, just before the World Wide Web exploded on the scene. By 1994, many SysOps began converting from running BBSes to becoming Internet Service Provider s. Mr. Woltz was greatly admired by loyal SysOps, but was known for being somewhat stubborn and due to his unwillingness to add Internet connectivity to the software. SPITFIRE s usage dwindled significantly throughout the United States. It was and is still used throughout the world, particularly in countries where high speed Internet access is unavailable or banned. However, due to advances in technology, SPITFIRE can be run as a telnet BBS by using a virtual FOSSIL driver and TELNET telnet engine SIO VMODEM under OS 2 , NetFoss , NetSerial or NetModem under Microsoft Windows Windows . SPITFIRE version 3.6 was updated in 1999 for Y2K compliance. Current release is SPITFIRE 3.7 as of 1 January 2010 which is still supported by Buffalo Creek Software today. External links http www.homestead.com homeward index.html Homeward Bound BBS running Spitfire http www.buffalocrk.com Buffalo Creek Software http www.pcmicro.com ... NetModem Use dmy dates date September 2010 DEFAULTSORT Spitfire Bbs Category Bulletin board ... more details
Shuimu Tsinghua zh s p shu m q nghu abbreviated as SMTH BBS is the first and one of the most ... for its diversity and depth of topics. Access to the SMTH BBS was restricted to on campus ... censorship on the Internet. Early in 2006, the SMTH BBS reopened itself to the alien IPs from outside ... visits from the outside world. 1995 How it All Began In early August 1995, ace set up a BBS site ... joined the endeavor and transferred the system onto a SUN Sparc 20 with 64M memory. On August 8, the BBS .... At the end of October, a new system named FireBird BBS replaced the former one. Before that, the system ... version of the WWW BBS architecture was implemented. In December, SMTH experienced a severe hard ... University BBS Regulations came into effect. At the end of February, due to the death of Deng Xiaoping ... who fell seriously ill. Late September, the SMTH BBS administration was established and began its first ... in 2005, demanding all university BBS sites to be reformed into campus wide communication platforms and requiring users to register under their legal names. SMTH BBS was made to be the pioneering ... from a public BBS into a campus restricted BBS effective March 16, 2005. In the afternoon of the same day, the BBS Administrative Committee issued An Open Letter to All Users of SMTH , stating their stance .... Instead, they were greeted with the welcome message Effective from today, BBS SMTH is restricted ..., Lily , the BBS of Nanjing University , , became read only , depriving all users of their posting ... University BBS which used to rank the second. Similar screening has been done to other university ... the SMTH BBS administration to block THUExpress , one of the SMTH s most visited and prosperous ... log in welcome message as From today onward, SMTH BBS has re established itself as a campus only site ... of March 17, the SMTH administration issued an announcement saying the SMTH BBS was undergoing ... adjustment on the regulation of BBS activities, which received from the University a response saying ... more details
Infobox Software name Maximus screenshot Image Maximus BBS 1.0.png 250px caption Maximus 1.0 in action developer Scott J. Dudley latest release version 3.01 latest release date 1995 operating system MS DOS , OS 2 , Microsoft Windows Windows , later Unix like genre bulletin board system license GNU General Public License website http sourceforge.net projects maximus Maximus BBS on SourceForge 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 Microsoft Windows Windows operating systems. The MS DOS version interfaced with the serial port and thus the modem through a FOSSIL driver ref cite web url http maximus.cvs.sourceforge.net viewvc maximus maximus max fos dos.c?revision 1.1&view markup title FOSSIL I O routines in initial checkin accessdate 5 December 2008 ref . Version 1.0 was released in 1990, with versions 2.0 and 3.01 following in 1991 and 1995. The source code for Maximus and its companion utilities, such as Squish fidonet Squish , was released under the GNU General Public License in 2002. It has since ... a relatively basic interface for BBS callers rendered in either ANSI art ANSI or ASCII , compared with other BBS software. Menu layout is auto generated and simply drawn. With some effort, however, it is very ... RIP graphics for users. When BBS systems were popular, Maximus often appealed to system operators ... programming languages for system operators to customise their BBS. Both are compiled to Maximus ... to files on disk to exchange information with BBS door programs. The MEX language is a more structured ... to run on their BBS and interact with users. See also Squish fidonet Squish the primary mail format used by Maximus, and Fidonet mail tossing application used to process it. List of BBS software External ... Bulletin board system software Category DOS software Category OS 2 software ru Maximus BBS ... more details
Wildcat is a bulletin board system BBS software package developed in 1986 by Mustang Software to create a dial up BBS operating under DOS . It was later ported to Microsoft Windows . By the release of Version 4 it was the basis for over 50,000 bulletin boards worldwide. Fact date February 2007 The product was later expanded to integrate Internet access under the name WINServer Wildcat Interactive Net Server . Mustang sold Wildcat to Santronics Software, Inc. on November 19, 1998. ref cite news title Mustang Software Announces Sale of Wildcat BBS Product Lines to Santronics Software, Inc. date 1998 11 19 accessdate 2005 04 17 url http software.bbsdocumentary.com IBM DOS WILDCAT wildcat.sale ref Santronics had been an active third party developer for the Wildcat product lines since 1991 . References See http en.wikipedia.org wiki Wikipedia Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the ref erences tags references External links http www.santronics.com Santronics Software Category Bulletin board system software Category DOS software network software stub ... more details
Unreferenced date November 2009 Hermes Bulletin Board Software BBS was first released in 1989 as one of the early bulletin board system applications available for the Macintosh computer. With an interface based largely on WWIV BBS for MS DOS , Hermes offered an alternative to Red Ryder software Red Ryder Host that offered better support for multi line BBSes and a more complete out of the box configuration. It also offered the ability for SysOp s to maintain their BBSes remotely, and offered an application programming interface API for external application developers to extend the system. Hermes continues to be developed, and currently When date December 2010 reason currently has no meaning in an encyclopaedia features a Python programming language Python API for external development. However, it is only available as a classic Mac OS application, so cannot run natively on Mac OS X or Intel Macintosh hardware. External links http www.hermesbbs.com hermesbbs.com , official website for Hermes BBS Category 1989 software Category Bulletin board system software Category Mac OS software Mac software stub ... more details
TAG is a DOS based bulletin board system BBS software program , released from 1986 to 2000. TAG was written in Borland Pascal and is free for business or personal use They considered it fun to give the program away while others tried charge for them . ref http www.bbsdocumentary.com software IBM DOS TAG ref Authors over the years Victor Capton, Randy Goebel, Alan Jurison, Paul Loeber, Robert Numerick and Paul Williams. All live in the Detroit MI area except Alan Jurison who lives in Syracuse NY . Peak number of running systems Just over 1000, mostly in the US and Canada . Areas of major TAG BBS concentrations Michigan Detroit where it started , Lansing , Flint and Battle Creek California Oakland Connecticut Hartford Florida Jacksonville and Cocoa, Florida Cocoa Maryland Baltimore . New Jersey Newark, New Jersey Newark New York Syracuse, New York Syracuse North Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina Raleigh Ontario , Canada Windsor, Ontario Windsor and Hamilton, Ontario Hamilton Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Texas Houston , Beaumont, Texas Beaumont and Fort Worth Virginia Norfolk A quote from one of the authors We all poured countless hours into the development and support of people running BBSs. Even today I don t think the internet has come close to the sense of community and simple accomplishment that BBSing provided. Building and running a complete environment on your local computer and watching people use it is a far different experience than putting up a web page on some remote server. We all made and still have a great many friends from being sysops and BBS developers. Other Notes No one ever got them to answer definitively on what their name stood for, but there was a reasonably reliable rumor that it was from The Adventurer s Guild which was a Dungeons and Dragons sort of reference. Citation needed date September 2008 The only known T.A.G. BBS still in existence can be accessed via telnet at diskbox.homeip.net Intro Screen The intro screen to the TAG BBS login was font size ... more details
BBS Worldgroup Server logo File screenshot File caption collapsible author Tim Stryker and others developer ... BBS sometimes MajorBBS or MBBS was bulletin board software a bulletin board system server developed ... thumb Galacticomm logo Image Worldgroup logo 01.GIF thumb Worldgroup logo History The Major BBS was developed ... systems, bank systems, and real estate systems. Eventually, The Major BBS was enhanced ... more copies of The Major BBS than the GSBL by itself. The GSBL continued to be enhanced, expanding to 64 users by 1988, then 256 by 1992, with The Major BBS s line capacity expanding as a result. Because ... malls what would now be called shopping cart software to online role playing game s. The Major BBS ... was derived from another ISV s offering. In 1992, the Major BBS was selected by the National Library ... extended The Major BBS software to communicate in a client server model with a custom program. The MBBS ... as a dominant phenomenon. The popularity of the text terminal based Bulletin Board System BBS es, well ... BBS Restoration Project Technical information Initially, a system s linecount depended on the user limit of the GSBL purchased with the BBS. The GSBL and thus the BBS was offered in 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 .... Due to a limitation of the 16 bit architecture of MS DOS, Major BBS was limited to a maximum ... currently owned by Elwynor Technologies Kyrandia Major BBS Kyrandia by Scott Brinker and Richard ... Mutants Major BBS game Mutants by Majorware Inc. currently owned by Metropolis Gameport Phantasia ... Software currently owned by Elwynor Technologies Androids Major BBS game Androids by Tim Stryker Hangman s Secret Cove by Galacticomm Super Nova Major BBS game Super Nova by Galacticomm T LORD ... Inc BladeMaster by Logicom Inc CyberTank by InfiNetwork Foodfight Major BBS game Foodfight by Jabberwocky Inc Teleconference Trivia by Jabberwocky Inc RingMasters by InfiNetwork Archery Major BBS game Archery by GWW The Casino Major BBS game The Casino by Logicom Inc External links http www.elwynor.com ... more details
Image Mitbbs logo.png right thumb The current logo of mitbbs.com MIT BBS zh c p w i m ng k ng ji n l Unnamed Space is a China Chinese bulletin board system site. History The forum was started in 1997 as bbs.mit.edu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology , hence the MIT in its name. However, its history can be traced to two earlier forums the Unknown BBS at Peking University , China from 1996 1997, followed by the Space BBS at Center for Space Science at Chinese Academy of Sciences . Unlike the two precursors which were located in China, the MIT forum is much less affected by Internet censorship in mainland China , and grew in popularity among Chinese students studying abroad. In 2002, the Chinese government blocked access to the entire mit.edu domain. ref name MITBlock cite web url http tech.mit.edu V122 N58 58web.58n.html title China Blocks MIT Web Addresses ref Some have speculated that the main reason was to prevent domestic users from accessing the uncensored political discussions on this forum. Eventually, due to the popularity of the forum and bandwidth limitations, the forum was moved from the mit.edu domain to its own permanent domain at mitbbs.com. The current mitbbs owner formed UNKNOWN SPACE LLC in the state of Massachusetts on Jan 2002, in order to receive advertising profits. The name was changed from 011 86. LLC on 6 2 2003. And this organization was involuntary dissolved by Court Order or SOC on April 30 2009. ref name MITDISSOLUTION cite web url https corp.sec.state.ma.us corp corpsearch CorpSearchSummary.asp?ReadFromDB True&UpdateAllowed &FEIN 000809359 title Public status MA Corporations Division . ref In 2004, to circumvent the block in place in China, a self censored server ref name MITCN cite web url http mitbbs.cn title . ref was opened to facilitate access by users in China. Currently there are about 300 topic groups. The website claims ... div External links zh icon http www.bbstar.com zh icon http www.mitbbs.com MIT BBS Category ... more details
KOM is a type of Bulletin board system BBS , with a text based as opposed to a menu computing menu based input system. The first was QZ KOM , but soon others imitated the user interface. The QZKOM system was first opened in 1978, which probably makes it the first Swedish developed forum service in Sweden. It was forbidden by the Swedish government late the same year, reopened with permission in 1979. Before opening of QZKOM, QZ ran the American system Forum Planet which provided similar services but only for very small user groups. Some KOMpatible systems are LysKOM MikroKOM SklaffKOM NiKom H KOM TPCS The Common Link TCL , for MS DOS EasyKOM Alpha KOM Nice Touch OpenKOM http sourceforge.net projects openkom For a list of active KOM systems today, see the article on LysKOM . External links http dsv.su.se jpalme s1 history of KOM.html History of the KOM Computer Conferencing System http dsv.su.se jpalme qzkom Full contents of some discussions in QZKOM in the 1980s In Swedish Category Bulletin board systems network software stub sv KOM ... more details
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