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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: 356 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: 30 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: 38 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 21 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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    The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).
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    Downloads: 13 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: 6 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: 16 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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    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: 4 This Week
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    Citadel is a unique fusion of groupware, cms, bbs, and more...
    Downloads: 9 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: 3 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: 4 This Week
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    Hungarian translation of phpBB 3.
    Downloads: 7 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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    EasyMOD is a script for phpBB that installs mods automatically on your phpBB installation.
    Downloads: 3 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: 3 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: 5 This Week
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    Cheepware

    Cheepware

    Open source BBS doors and utilities

    Cheepware is a line of BBS doors and utilities developed by Sean Dennis that are open source under the MIT License for DOS, Win32, OS/2, and Linux,.
    Downloads: 4 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: 4 This Week
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    Phorum is a web based discussion software written in PHP. Phorum utilizes a database to manage its messages. It focuses on a generic but customizable user interface and high quality administration functionality. Attention: Use phorum.org !!!
    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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    Discuz X2 RUS

    Discuz! X2 - русская локализация

    Discuz! X2 - Основное назначение движка - упрощение интеграции различных сервисов на одном сайте. По сути это технологически новое, программное решение, выполненное на PHP и MySQL для создания высокопроизводительного и многофункционального ресурса с элементами социальной сети. Грубо говоря - это симбиоз социальной сети и форума в одном флаконе.
    Downloads: 2 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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    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: 2 This Week
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