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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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    5.0 out of 5 stars 9 Reviews
    Downloads: 346 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.
    4.9 out of 5 stars 43 Reviews
    Downloads: 51 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!
    5.0 out of 5 stars 23 Reviews
    Downloads: 36 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
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 55 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 32 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
    5.0 out of 5 stars 4 Reviews
    Downloads: 14 This Week
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    my little forum
    my little forum is on GitHub now: https://github.com/ilosuna/mylittleforum
    4.7 out of 5 stars 3 Reviews
    Downloads: 11 This Week
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    Free forum / bulletin board software. PHP and MySQL based.
    Downloads: 36 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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    4.2 out of 5 stars 4 Reviews
    Downloads: 14 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 3 Reviews
    Downloads: 9 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: 27 This Week
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    QTerm is a BBS client in Linux.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Reviews
    Downloads: 9 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: 25 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.
    4.9 out of 5 stars 44 Reviews
    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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Reviews
    Downloads: 7 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 11 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
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Reviews
    Downloads: 6 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
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Vikingboard is a PHP-based discussion forum designed by the principle of "less is more", and features a lighting-fast cache system while still maintaining the features needed for a solid discussion board. Small, but incredibly fast and powerful.
    Downloads: 13 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: 12 This Week
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    ThWboard is a free bulletin board system providing all major bb features. The board is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database to store posts, users, etc. ThWboard is being used on some well visited pages and is fairly stable.
    Downloads: 11 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 1 Review
    Downloads: 5 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Reviews
    Downloads: 3 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.
    5.0 out of 5 stars 2 Reviews
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    The aim of this project is to produce a lightweight but reasonably secure PHP and MySQL Forum that can be easily installed to compatible web servers, and will be easily customisable for the end user as well as administrators.
    Downloads: 8 This Week
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