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BBS Software for Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the ahhh-good-old-forum-hacks dept.

Walter Bell asks: "Several years ago I used to run a BBS based on the Oblivion/2 software. Obv/2 was an excellent BBS manager, but as far as I can tell, it is still only available on the MS-DOS 3.3 platform. Does anyone know where to find a Linux port of Obv/2 (or any other Forum hack, for that matter) so I can start up my BBS again under Linux?" Ahh...good old Forum. I remember hacking my own copy of Forum and producing a clone called Apex, back in the day. Have ports of any of the old school BBS software platforms ever made it on to Unix? I do remember WWIV was C, so that may have been ported. Not so sure about Forum, however.

16 comments

  1. Synchronet by Almace · · Score: 2, Informative

    There is an excellent prot being done of synchronet up on sourceforge. It may not be obl/2 but I used it quite a bit in windows and am looking forward to the linux version.

    http://www.synchro.net

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  2. Citadel/UX for UNIX/Linux by Tumbleweed · · Score: 2

    Here's a link to the http://uncnsrd.mt-kisco.ny.us/citadel/ Citadel/UX home page. It's been around for a loooong time.

    ps what's with the weird [domain] thing being added without my consent?! Irritating.

    1. Re:Citadel/UX for UNIX/Linux by jjshoe · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      its not weird
      its so users dont get sent to goatse.cx if they click on a link in a daze

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    2. Re:Citadel/UX for UNIX/Linux by superflex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      posters can't choose whether or not they want the [domain] added to their link, but users can turn the feature on or off in their preferences

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  3. glFtpd by fluor2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nowadays we use glFTPd (www.glftpd.com) (freeware). It has message and oneliner etc support. Also, it has an excellent way of requesting files etc.

  4. hey by Immature+Bastard · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    maybe that's just want they need to snap them out of a daze!

  5. Debian users have an advantage by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 1
    adbbs - ad! BBS. A perl based bbs or easy menu system.

    aD! BBS was basically written to provide a nice, easy to use menu / bbs interface, currently it doesn't handle special permissions, group permissions, etc. but they are in the 'todo' list. Supports ANSI Color.

    apt-get install adbbs, debheads!

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  6. WWIV... by ameoba · · Score: 2

    If you're at all interested in WWIV, I'm pretty sure you can find the source floating around. I think I've got a copy of it somewhere. Of course, I can imagine that a lot of work would go into porting from DOS based app to a *nix based app that could be telneted into...

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    1. Re:WWIV... by riffraff · · Score: 3, Informative
      Yes, me too. I've got the source to wwiv v4.20 on my hard drive right now (from way back when, about August of 1991 or so). It was my favorite.

      There is a version being ported to Linux. Here is an excerpt:

      WWIV/X 4.25 is a port of WWIV 4.24a for DOS to the Linux platform with additional code from WWIV 4.30 for DOS. It is based on the same code as WWIV for DOS, and significant portions of the code have remained intact. Eventually, we hope to integrate the new features of WWIV 4.30 into WWIV/X, but no timeline for that has been established.

      Here is the link: http://kobran.yi.org/wwivx/index.html

      -rr

    2. Re:WWIV... by Elequin · · Score: 2, Informative

      They've been talking about a Linux version of WWIV (what I used to run as well), but I don't think it's actively being developed. Kinda fell to the wayside. Here is the official webpage. I remember sending in my $50 to get the C source code back in the late eighties/early nineties to Wayne Bell. :-)

      - Eric

  7. Try EleBBS by nbvb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    EleBBS is written mostly as an RA clone... works pretty well in Linux.. and is FREE!

    http://www.elebbs.com/

    And the author, Maarten Beckers is a good guy. :-)

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  8. Text/Ansi BBS for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You might try TVBBS.. From Temporal-Vortex.
    It's written in PERL, and supports many common BBS functions.

  9. DOSEMU by mini+me · · Score: 1

    Dosemu (DOS Emulater) might do what you want if you wish to run an old DOS BBS.

    I've played around with running some DOS apps over SSH using Dosemu before and it worked fairly well.

  10. 2 comes to my mind. by rasjani · · Score: 3, Informative

    2 Longtimers comes to my mind.

    First is Daydream bbs which can be found @ http://daydream.iwn.fi. I think Daydream was first written for Amiga, then ported to msdos/win and now to *nix.

    Second is BBBS, which can be found @ http://www.bbbs.net. In "Those" days, i wasnt much of a bbbs fan because of its unix'sh interface but dunno what i might say today =)

    And yeah, they are both from Finland ;)

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  11. Oblivion/2 sources where available. by rasjani · · Score: 2

    After my first post to this thread, i remembered that infact, Oblivion/2 released its sourcecode in somepoint so someone might have it online somewhere. You might want to start digging those old pascal sourcecode archive sites....

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