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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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    Downloads: 324 This Week
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    phpBB

    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.
    Downloads: 65 This Week
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    Qodem Terminal Emulator
    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.
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    Downloads: 35 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 22 This Week
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  • Picsart Enterprise Background Removal API for Stunning eCommerce Visuals Icon
    Picsart Enterprise Background Removal API for Stunning eCommerce Visuals

    Instantly remove the background from your images in just one click.

    With our Remove Background API tool, you can access the transformative capabilities of automation , which will allow you to turn any photo asset into compelling product imagery. With elevated visuals quality on your digital platforms, you can captivate your audience, and therefore achieve higher engagement and sales.
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    Yet another Bulletin Board (YaBB)
    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!
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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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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    Downloads: 8 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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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!
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    XMB Forum - php forum

    XMB Forum - php forum

    php forum, php forum script, forum software, bbs - by XMB Forum

    XMB [eXtreme Message Board] is a PHP forum with all the features you need to support a growing online community. With outstanding community support and contribution, you will find XMB to be easy to setup, customize, enhance and use. Though XMB is lightweight out of the box, it offers the key features you need to get your message board forum up and running. php forum, php forum script, forum software, bbs - XMB Forum is all of the above. XMB forum software is free, open source and runs PHP scripts with a MySQL database or MariaDB backend. A great alternative to other forums like PHPBB, SMF, vBulletin, XenForo, Invision, MyBB, bbPress, Vanilla, Discuz.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Qsampler

    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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    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    MultiMail Offline Reader
    MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for Unix and other systems. It currently supports the Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN, OPX and SOUP formats. It has a full screen, color user interface, built with the curses library.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    Embeddable telnet daemon written 100% in Java.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Hungarian translation of phpBB 3.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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    mvnForum is a open source, powerful, easy to use/setup bulletin board (forum) built on the J2EE technology(Jsp/Servlet) and compatible with any Servlet Container which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. The official home page is www.mvnForum.com
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    phpBB Spain - phpBB España

    phpBB Spain - phpBB España

    Soporte phpBB Oficial España

    Spanish Support site for forums phpBB, MODs, templates, icons, and others downloads. Translation phpBB, Icy Phoenix and others CMS based in phpBB.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Beehive Forum
    PHP/MySQL Discussion Forum with frames-based layout, reply-to-user, e-mail notification, HTML-posting, signatures, friends & killfiles, user promotion/demotion and full admin tools.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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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), BinkD 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.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Kusaba X
    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
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    php Net is a light-weight flexible forum based website software package that uses object-oriented programming and the MySQL database. It's purpose is to act as a fast (and free) alternative to other forum packages which are noticably slow.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Filemgr

    Filemgr a BBS file & .tic tosser

    Filemgr a BBS file & .tic tosser for Sysops. Currently written in Turbo Pascal and some assembler under Msdos/Windows & Linux in a Dos Box.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    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.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Protect your bandwith and increase traffic to your vBulliten web site. This project is to keep the location of files a secret that are on FTP of a vBulliten forums website. Avoid using the vB attachments database and hide file locations.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    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
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Not into manually editing all of those phpBB files? Worried about damaging your database by adding MODs? Fully Modded phpBB2 is the worlds leading Open Source flat style modified phpbb discussion board that has plenty of useful and fun mods pre-installed
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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