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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: 597 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: 41 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 38 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: 22 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: 31 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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    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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    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: 6 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: 10 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: 9 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: 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: 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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    "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: 7 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: 6 This Week
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    Embeddable telnet daemon written 100% in Java.
    Downloads: 3 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: 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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    NES Game & NES System is a collection of php scripts to build a powerfull set of reuseable php classes that are used for the NES Game but applicable to any web game in mind. The system allows for easy pluging in of further games instead of using just the
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Hungarian translation of phpBB 3.
    Downloads: 5 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: 2 This Week
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    This program hopes to become a viable MS Sharepoint clone. It is basically a web interface to a document repository (Frontpage Web), but with many other features...It depends on Frontpage for remote authoring, otherwise it is independent.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Lotus Core CMS is all about site integration with phpbb3! Lotus Core CMS provides fast and easy website creation and integration with phpbb3!
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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