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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: 303 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: 19 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 24 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: 12 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: 14 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: 14 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: 9 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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    Talkboard Forum
    The Talkboard Forum tries to mix the good ideas from other BBs with its own. It supports everything you can expect from a modern bulletin board and provides a fast and easy interface.
    Downloads: 5 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: 8 This Week
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    my little forum
    my little forum is on GitHub now: https://github.com/ilosuna/mylittleforum
    Downloads: 2 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: 1 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: 6 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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    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: 2 This Week
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    Simple Forum Auto Poster
    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.
    Downloads: 2 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: 2 This Week
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    French phpBB Translation
    This is the Standard French translation project for phpBB3. We are doing translations of the actual software itself (language files, packages and imagesets).
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    OpenSVM is an open source Support Vector Machine (SVM) implementation which based on libsvm2.84. It supports C-SVC, nu-SVC, epsilon-SVR and nu-SVR and has a graphic interface which is based on MFC(Win32 Platfroms).
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    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
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    shinGETsu

    shinGETsu is a P2P(peer-to-peer) anonymous BBS

    Now shinGETsu is developed on GitHub. Please come on https://github.com/shingetsu
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Light and complete forum including the basic functionalities. Possible addition of functions. Others packs will be available while including some more.
    Downloads: 4 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: 1 This Week
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    ImpressCMS : German

    ImpressCMS : German

    !! We moved to Assembla !!

    ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System, developed in PHP and mySQL. With this tool, maintaining the content of a website becomes as easy as writing a word document! !! We moved to Assembla !! https://www.assembla.com/spaces/impresscms Our German community with support: http://www.impresscms.de/modules/forum
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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