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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: 331 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: 32 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: 58 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: 17 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: 14 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    This is the place the Attachment Mod is at home. The Attachment Mod is an addition to phpBB Forums (not ported phpBB Packages), allowing to attach files to posts with a vast of options for displaying/adding files. The feature list will reveal most of it.
    Downloads: 26 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: 4 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), 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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Apache Answer

    Apache Answer

    Free and open source Q&A platform software for all the teams.

    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.
    Downloads: 13 This Week
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    The aim of this project is to add to the already growing pile of PHP/MySQL bulletin board systems, and hopefully come out near the top. Forum WEB 2.0 (AJAX XML XSLT) based
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    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
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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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.
    Downloads: 3 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: 4 This Week
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    OPT is a PHP web-based generic project development virtual common place offering easy access to project information such as tasks, requests, e-mail, trouble tickets, documents plus a couple of other features. Uses LAMP [plus experimental Windows support]
    Downloads: 4 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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    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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    Downloads: 7 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: 3 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: 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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    The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).
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    Downloads: 3 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: 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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    "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.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    MathJax
    MathJax is a modular javascript framework for including mathematics in web pages. It can take input in various formats, like TeX and MathML, and can produce output in various forms, such as MathML or HTML-with-CSS. Components are loaded as needed.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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