Open Source BBS Software

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.

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.

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!

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.

Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.

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.

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).

Pyrophobia is an Open Source CMS system for people who have little/no experience in HTML. All you need is a little experience of BBCode and the ability to click/type and you can create a proffessional website in seconds.

The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).

Navboard is a php based web forum using text files to store data instead of using a database, compatible with any server running php 4.0 or higher, all the features of most major forum software and no installation needed.

PNphpBB2 is a forum module for PostNuke based on current phpBB. The material here is outdated, all development and latest downloads are at http://trac.postnuke.com/phpbb/

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.

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.

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!

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.

Gravity Board X is forum software written in PHP and MySQL. GBX features a unique front page layout, and version 2.0 will push the envelope with features such as a CSS-based layout, WYSIWYG message editor and AJAX framework.

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 !!!

"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.

X-Forum aims to produce an open-source web-based bulletin board system.

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.

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.

QTerm is a BBS client in Linux.

EasyMOD is a script for phpBB that installs mods automatically on your phpBB installation.

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.

This is the place the Attachment Mod is at home. The Attachment Mod is an addition to phpBB Forums (not ported phpBB Packages), allowing to attach files to posts with a vast of options for displaying/adding files. The feature list will reveal most of it.