Mystic BBS
| Original author(s) | James Coyle |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
1.11
/ Nov 6 2015 |
| Preview release |
1.12 Alpha 32
/ May 4 2017 |
| 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 1995 and was first released to the public in 1997 under the MS-DOS platform. It has since been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, OS X, and Linux (Intel and ARM based systems such as the Raspberry Pi).
Some of the more notable capabilities of Mystic BBS include:
- Integrated Telnet, SSH, FTP, POP3, SMTP, NNTP, BINKP servers
- Full 5D compliant BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP and FTP mailer
- 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 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)
A more complete list of capabilities can be found at 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 & Configuration
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)
- Another F-ing BBS (Anotherbbs.bbsindex.com , Run by Gary Crunk since January '17)
- Black Thursday BBS (Run by skatter since the late '90s)
- Central Ontario Remote BBS
- Clutch BBS (Originally launched in `95)
- Cyberia BBS telnet to cyberia.darktech.org
- Datanet BBS Melbourne, Australia SysOp: rEApZ
- Distortion BBS
- Error 404 BBS (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '14)
- flupH BBS Survnet *Survival & Self reliance Hq* Blocktronic member board
- Leisure Time BBS (Located in New Baden, IL, USA)
- 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. Run by Necromaster. Home of RetroNet)
- 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 864s longest running BBS created in 1996.
- X-TReMe BBS (Located in Belgium, since '10)
- The Nut Asylum (XTCBOX) BBS
- THE VOiD BBS (Located in Troy, Ohio ran by Terra-X)
- Lunatic Fringe (Located in Vancouver, WA)
- The Zone BBS (Located in Lorain, Ohio)
To connect to these systems, a Telnet client designed to access BBS systems such as NetRunner is recommended.