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CM-01: Bulletin Board Systems
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#27604/0707 BBS Lists Small Programs Disk
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Black Bag BBS 12/01/91 (BLACKBA)
Del Grosso, Edward
$0
is a world-wide listing of over 250 BBSs related to medicine, science,
disability recovery, AIDS and a variety of other medically related topics.
DTPBBS 9.90
Atlee, Frank
$0
is a list of BBS's that are fully desktop oriented or are known to have desktop
publishing sections with files and/or clip art for download. Some have a message
base or conferences devoted to desktop publishing.
FindBBS
Campbell, George
$0
is a search routine which locates BBS phone numbers quickly and easily. A
large list of U.S. BBS's is included.
MedBBS
is a list of medical, fire/EMS, science, alcohol, AIDS and disability
related bulletin board systems.
MedLegal
$0
is a current listing of 49 BBS's that specialize in medical or legal
areas.
PCPBBS
SEAboard
$0
contains a list of over 1800 BBS's which are accessible via PC Pursuit.
US-BBS 8.9 (USBBS)
Darwin Systems, Inc.
$0
is the latest release of a large list of BBS's across the United Stated. BBS
name, Sysop, baud rate, telephone number and other basic information is
included.
V96BBS
contains lists of BBS's which use the Hayes V-series Smartmodem 9600 baud
modem.
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96List
Sukimoto, Ken
$0
#27604/3907
is a collection of phone numbers of bulletin boards with one or more lines
supporting connect speeds of 9600bps or higher. There are over 3000 listings
in this collection. A high density floppy or hard disk is required.
National BBS List
SEAboard
$0
#27604/3908
contains a list of over 7000 BBSs across the United States. Over 500K of disk
space is required for this extensive text file.
BBSXpress
Levin, Richard B.
$50
#27461/1471 [2 disks]
is a full-featured bulletin board system offering most, if not all, of the
popular features demanded by callers and sysops. There are no limits on the
number of conferences, file areas, protocols, bulletins, questionnaires, or
message sizes. System maintenance is fully automated, removing most of the
drudgery of running a BBS. The author claims that even if you have never run
a BBS before, you will probably have BBSXpress up and running in 90 minutes or
less. A hard disk and DOS 3+ are required.
EIS BBS
Langseth, Justin, ASP
$119
#1767
is an electronic mail and bulletin board system that is highly configurable.
EIS will run external programs written for RBBS and other popular bbs's.
Transfer protocols include Xmodem, Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Zmodem, and Xmodem CRC.
All of the internal databases are in Paradox Table format. Other features
include an ANSI editor, the ability to download files in batches using a
protocol like Zmodem or Ymodem-Batch, a message base packing program, and a
MegaMail off-line message reader. It is easy to set up and run.
Free Speech
Pinnacle Software
$25
#2570
is a BBS providing a very streamlined conversation system. It can operate as a
stand-alone BBS, an announcer board, a door, a front-end to other BBS's, a
modem-handler for doors, or as a night-time alternate. It can read and write
public text, and write private text for system operator.
Magpie
Manes, Steve
$75
#1315
The author claims that this is "probably the most full-featured BBS package
ever written for microcomputer." It employs a tree-structured message base.
The author also warns: "Magpie is a complex program and, as such, requires
folks willing to make an effort at learning it. Fortunately, it is not beyond
the capacity of most people to learn." Magpie requires a hard disk. It has
been successfully tested on XT's, AT's and 386's. It supports up to 9600 baud.
Maximus-CBCS
Dudley, Scott J.
$110
#27437/3039 [5 disks]
is a multi-line BBS for DOS and OS/2. It is compatible with Opus 1.03 and has
an extensive list of features, including a very sophisticated messaging
system. It can directly display the contents of several types of archives,
including ZIP, ARC, PAK and LZH. It supports Avatar graphics. It will
automatically translate IBM line-drawing characters to normal ASCII.
It supports a lightning-fast local video mode, which is aware of DoubleDOS,
DESQview, and TopView. With all these features, Maximus still uses only 146K
of RAM. The source code is available on disk #27438/3040 [2 disks].
MaxiHost
Mankin, Don, ASP
$25-$50
#27023/2331
is a personal BBS for people who want to be able to call their own system or let
a friend call it and download a few files. MaxiHost has the following
enhancements over MiniHost: improved Message System database, Message System
printing, support for 9600 and 19200 bps modems, support for Multi-taskers,
Event Scheduling, Questionnaire facility, Operator Chat hours, Trap DOOR menuing
system, Menu driven DIRECTORY changes, supports up to fifteen external file
transfer protocols, releases all but 25k of memory when in a door or in a DOS
shell, program description updates in any directory, data files may be in a
separate directory, 25 character CONFERENCE descriptions, ANSI graphics new
user, help, and goodbye screens, and more. A hard disk is recommended.
Maxihost is easy to install. In fact, almost no installation is required. (We
are not sure if there is still any need for the old Minihost.) You may have to
edit a few lines in the configuration file if you use different subdirectory
names than the ones suggested, but that is about it. We highly recommend
Maxihost for people wanting a quick and easy bulletin board system.
MiniHost
Mankin, Don, ASP
$?
#27023/769
is a quick-and-easy bulletin board system for people who want to be able to
call their own system or let a friend call it and download a few files. We
have been slow adding this program because the top communications programs,
such as Procomm and GT Powercomm, have host modes of their own, but we have
gotten some requests for a simple stand-alone program such as this one.
Christian Lucht, Feeding Hills, MA, reports that Minihost will not work with
the modem on COM4.
MegaHost 2.02B
Mankin, Don, ASP
$33-$63
#27023/4161
is a personal BBS system by the author of MiniHost and MaxiHost. Enhancements
over those systems include support for 9600 and 19200 baud modems, support for
multi-taskers, event scheduling, questionnaire, support for up to 15 external
file transfer protocols, DOOR support, security system, message database system,
and much more. Requires 384K RAM, DOS 3+ and high density floppy or hard disk.
Phoenix
The GeneSys Project, Inc.
$60
#27422/0607 [2 disks]
is a bulletin board program that was previously known as Collie and Colossus.
Bugs in those versions have been fixed and new features added. DSZ, Zmodem,
Ymodem, Ymodem-G are now supported. A new programmable menu system has been
added.
PICS (Pascal Integrated Communications System)
Archambault, Les
$0
#27423/1304 [2 disks]
is a completely integrated message and file transfer system. PICS is a
complete BBS and file exchange system that has total security, preventing
callers getting to the operating system of your computer. The second disk
contains the complete Turbo Pascal source code.
PICS features include public and private messages in multiple areas, multiple
file areas and libraries, a mode for chatting with the sysop, list names of
other users on the system, and more.
Postmaster BBS
Levin, Richard B.
$25-$75
#1310
is a full featured, maintenance free, multi-SIG, multi-LIB electronic mail
and file transfer system. PM is also designed to automate maintenance and
ease the sysop burden as much as possible.
Postmaster's use of DOS's hierarchal directory format allows SysOps to
create varied and unusual BBS environments. A Postmaster SysOp in Florida has
structured h