Mystic BBS
| Original author(s) | James Coyle |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.11 / Nov 06 2015 |
| Development status | Current |
| Written in | FreePascal |
| Operating system | DOS, Windows, OS/2, OS X, Linux |
| Platform | IA_32, x86-64, ARM |
| Type | BBS |
| License | Proprietary freeware |
| Website | http://www.mysticbbs.com/ |
Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1994. Mystic was the first DOS-based BBS software program to support a native telnet server. It has since been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, OS X, and Linux.
Some of the more notable features of Mystic BBS include:
- Integrated Telnet, FTP, POP3, SMTP, NNTP, BINKP servers
- Full 5D compliant BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP and FTP mailer
- Offers built in AreaFix and FileFix functionality and full fileecho support.
- Integrated QWK and QWKE networking via FTP
- Proprietary scripting language called Mystic Programming Language (MPL).
- Embedded PYTHON programming language
- DOS CP437 and UTF8 character translations
- Dynamic menus including menu editor, and fully customizable prompts.
- Multiple user-selectable themes.
- DOOR32 support (James Coyle was one of the original authors of DOOR32) in addition to various DOS-type door formats.
- Automatic random ANSI display (i.e. ansi.ans, ansi.an1, ansi.an2, etc. would display randomly).
- A fully featured ACS (access control system) and MCI display codes
- Highly integrated with ANSI graphics including full screen editor, lightbar menus, lightbar file listings and message reading.
- Advanced, feature-rich JAM message base system with QWK/QWKE offline mail.
- Multiple platform distributions available including Windows, OS X, Linux and ARM Linux (Raspberry Pi, ODROID, etc)
For more features see http://www.mysticbbs.com/features.html
Attracted to the flexibility and potential that the scripting language provides, a number groups, such as ACiDic BBS modding, Cyberia, Demonic, DoRE, Vanguard, wOE!mODDING and Wicked formed for the sole purpose of writing BBS mods for SysOps who run Mystic.
External Links
Software
Interviews
- Interview with g00r00 (reprint: wOEzine, December 1998)
Bulletin Board Systems
Here's a small selection of BBS that currently use Mystic software (alphabetical by BBS name):
- Agency BBS (New Zealand BBS, run by Avon since '13)
- Black Thursday BBS (Run by skatter since the late '90s)
- Clutch BBS (Originally launched in `95)
- Cyberia BBS telnet to cyberia.darktech.org
- Distortion BBS
- Error 404 BBS (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '14)
- flupH BBS Survnet *Survival & Self reliance Hq* Blocktronic member board
- Misery BBS (run by netsurge - home of the mystic bbs php library]
- Mythology BBS Originally launched in '94
- Necronomicon BBS (Originally started on Amiga CNet.)
- Never Never Land BBS (419 area code oldest bbs since '89)
- Piranha BBS (<ACiD> board run by caphood, since '95)
- Sinner's Haven II (Originally Created in '89 telegard, '92 OBV/2, recreated in '13 under Mystic)
- The Vortex BBS telnet to vortexbbs.com
- X-TReMe BBS (Located in Belgium, since '10)
To connect to these systems a good Telnet client such as NetRunner is recommended.