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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: 324 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: 45 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: 18 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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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 12 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: 18 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: 17 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: 8 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: 6 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: 7 This Week
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    vr32, Tired of not being able to run Win32 games on that dos bbs of yours. Well, this is the solution. It will act as a telnet server for your dos bbs and also allow you to run win32 games upon your dos bbs. Get your copy today! ...only for bbs's ran
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    A multiplayer RPG that connects as a psuedo server to an IRCD. Built in the tradition of old BBS Door games such as LORD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon). Forest fights add experience and gold needed to best your master (gain level
    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: 3 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: 3 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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    Synchronet BBS Utilities

    Synchronet BBS Utilities

    Suite of utilities for Linux SBBS Operators

    Makes running a Synchronet BBS on Linux easier. Includes a backup script, management console, startup script, and other useful utilities. Only tested on Ubuntu... Now designed to run as the user "bbsowner" rather than root. No need to use sudo command anymore.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Citadel is a unique fusion of groupware, cms, bbs, and more...
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    phpbb-language-zh-cmn-hans

    phpBB Chinese Language Pack

    简体中文语言包,唯一 phpBB 官方认可。 phpBB 简体中文支持社区 包括 phpBB 3.3.x, phpBB 3.2.x, phpBB 3.1.x, phpBB 3.0.x,四个版本的中文简体的官方支持论坛 https://www.phpbbchinese.com/ 下载语言包或者 phpBB 完整中文安装包,简体中文语言相关的问题,以及使用安装的问题都可以获得解答。
    Downloads: 6 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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    Atani Software has a primary focus of developing games for various platforms and also try to keep the good old BBS' alive with releases of door games, etc.
    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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    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: 3 This Week
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    MagMap is a computer magnetic map program. It was designed for companies that need to keep track of the locations of large equipment inventories throughout a country or region. MagMap can also be used as an information board of any kind.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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