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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: 616 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: 43 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 39 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: 23 This Week
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    MacphpBBMOD: House all the phpBB modifications developed and written by Mac (phpBB username: ycl6)
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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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: 7 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: 22 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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    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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    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: 7 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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    Meltdown BBS is a free, web-based Bulletin Board System written in PHP with a MySQL backend. Meltdown BBS allows message and file exchange and advanced control over users' access. It is designed to be compatible with Fidonet-technology networks.
    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: 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: 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: 4 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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    Horizon/2's goal is to be a full-featured BBS, reminiscent of dial-up Bulletin Board Systems in the early-to-mid 90's. Features planned for the first alpha/unstable release are local email, public threads/conferences, and irc-like chat.
    Downloads: 6 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: 6 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: 6 This Week
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    Embeddable telnet daemon written 100% in Java.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    PCMan is an easy-to-use telnet client mainly targets BBS users formerly running under MS Windows. PCMan X is a newly developed, open-source and cross-platform version written with wxWidgets, supporting X Window, MS Windows, and Mac OS X.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    IntegraMOD is a pre-modded version of phpbb2 with the best MODs for phpbb made to work with each other (compatibility of modifications). IntegraMOD stand for Integrated MODs. Its main addon is IM Portal which features forum-wide integration of portal b
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Hungarian translation of phpBB 3.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    EasyMOD is a script for phpBB that installs mods automatically on your phpBB installation.
    Downloads: 2 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: 1 This Week
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