BBS Software for Unix?

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.

Synchronet

[Almace]

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

Citadel/UX for UNIX/Linux

[Tumbleweed]

Here's a link to the http://uncnsrd.mt-kisco.ny.us/citadel/ [mt-kisco.ny.us] 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.

glFtpd

[fluor2]

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.

Debian users have an advantage

[Baloo Ursidae]

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!

WWIV...

[ameoba]

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...

Re:WWIV...

[riffraff]

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 [yi.org]

-rr

Re:WWIV...

[Elequin]

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 [wwiv.com] 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

Try EleBBS

[nbvb]

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

http://www.elebbs.com/ [elebbs.com]

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

--nbvb

Text/Ansi BBS for Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

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

DOSEMU

[mini me]

Dosemu [dosemu.org] (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.

2 comes to my mind.

[rasjani]

2 Longtimers comes to my mind.

First is Daydream bbs which can be found @ http://daydream.iwn.fi [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 [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 ;)

Oblivion/2 sources where available.

[rasjani]

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....