List of BBS software

Multi-platform

Citadel

CONFER – CONFER II on the MTS, CONFER U on Unix, written by Robert Parnes starting in 1975.

Mystic BBS – written by James Coyle with versions for DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, Mac OSX, and Raspberry Pi.

Synchronet

Virtual Advanced – also known as VBBS.

WWIV – WWIV v5.x is supported on both Windows 7+ 32bit as well as Linux 32bit and 64bit.

Altos 68000

PicoSpan

Amiga based

Ami-Express – aka "/X", very popular in the crackers/warez software scene.

Apple II series

Diversi-Dial (DDial) – Chat-room atmosphere supporting up to 7 incoming lines allowing links to other DDial boards.

GBBS – Applesoft and assembler-based BBS program by Greg Schaeffer.

GBBS Pro – based on the ACOS or MACOS (modified ACOS) language.

HBBS – a hi-resolution graphical dial-up BBS and client package for the Apple II, supported threaded, rich media messages including graphics, shapes, sound, fonts, sprites and animation via its desktop client entitled Pixterm.

Networks II – by Nick Naimo.

SBBS – Sonic BBS by Patrick Sonnek.

Apple Macintosh

Citadel – including Macadel, MacCitadel.

FirstClass (SoftArc)

Hermes

Red Ryder Host – early example of donationware.

TeleFinder

Atari 8-bit computer

AMIS – and derivatives

Commodore computers

Blue Board – by Martin Sikes.

Superboard – by Greg Francis and Randy Schnedler.

C*Base – by Gunther Birznieks, Jerome P. Yoner, and David Weinehall.

C-Net DS2 – by Jim Selleck.

Color64 – by Greg Pfountz.

Does the Job BBS – by Andrew Bernhardt.

EBBS-128 – by Mike Pugliese

Ivory BBS – by Bill Jackson.

McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald.

CP/M

Many of these needed BYE and KMD to handle modem interactions and file transfers.

MikroKom

RBBS – written in Microsoft Basic, really slow login with more than a few users.

TBBS

Microsoft Windows

Excalibur BBS

Mystic BBS

Synchronet

MS-DOS and compatible

CBBS – The first ever BBS software, written by Ward Christensen.

Celerity BBS

Citadel – including DragCit, Cit86, TurboCit, Citadel+

Ezycom – written by Peter Davies.

Falken

FBB (F6FBB) – packet radio BBS system, still in use.

GBBS (Graphics BBS) – used in the Melbourne area.

GT-Power

L.S.D. BBS – written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG).

The Major BBS

Maximus

McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald.

Mystic BBS

Opus-CBCS – first written by Wynn Wagner III.

PCBoard

PegaSys

ProBoard BBS – written by Philippe Leybaert (Belgium).

Pyroto Mountain

QuickBBS – written by Adam Hudson, with assistance by Phil Becker.

RBBS-PC

RemoteAccess – written by Andrew Milner.

Renegade – written by Cott Lang.

RoboBOARD/FX – written by Seth Hamilton.

Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)

Spitfire

SuperBBS – by Aki Antman and Risto Virkkala.

Synchronet

TBBS

Telegard

TriBBS

TCL

TAG

Virtual Advanced – also known as VBBS.

Waffle – written by Tom Dell, and supported UUCP (and Fidonet through extensions).

Wildcat! – originally by Mustang Software.

Worldgroup – The latest version of MajorBBS, the last released by Galacticomm.

WWIV – written by Wayne Bell, included WWIVNet and while popular on DOS platforms also had an OS/2 version.

OS/2

AdeptXBBS

Maximus

Mystic BBS

PCBoard

Synchronet

Virtual Advanced – also known as VBBS.

Wildcat! – originally by Mustang Software. It was not an OS/2 software package, but included code to run in a DOS box under OS/2.

Tandy TRS-80

Forum 80

TBBS - by Phil Becker, for the Model III/4

Unix and compatible

Citadel – including Citadel/UX, Dave's Own Citadel.

Firebird BBS – Linux-based.

LysKOM

Maple BBS

Maximus

Mystic BBS

OpenTG – OpenTelegard BBS

PicoSpan

Sklaffkom – Linux-based.

Synchronet

Waffle (BBS software)