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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: 372 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: 23 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: 41 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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    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: 12 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: 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), 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: 6 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: 7 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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    bbEditor is a stand alone client for create, editing and previewing of bbCode documents. This application was created to allow the local editing/storing of documents to be eventually posted on a CMS or BB system thats supports bbCode.
    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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    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.
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Elite Bulletin Board

    Elite Bulletin Board

    simple but advanced bulletin board

    Elite Bulletin Board is an advanced Bulletin Board program that provides advanced features such as CAPTCHA, sub-board, skinning ability, multilingual and much more. This project has been archived and the code lives here for historic-purposes only.
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    phpBB Platinum package is a software bundle. It consists of original phpBB 3.0 forum engine, preinstalled language packs, styles and several mods which can be turned on in various combinations with only few mouse clicks.
    Downloads: 4 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: 2 This Week
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    Open Flash Grapix
    Hello. Open Flash Grapix is a project inspired by the components easier to use graphics, basically just using these graphics in Visual Web sites or applications, in our case several times, we need graphs with Bezier curves combined with line graphs
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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