A formerly abandoned project by programmer
George Roberts, Nexus BBS is now back in production. George stopped working on Nexus
back in 1997, shortly after the first public release. Currently he is
updating the code set for Y2K compatibility, and he is considering porting it
to 32bit operating systems.
http://nexusbbs.net
Synchronet BBS News:
The author of Synchronet BBS Software Rob Swindell has decided to make
all versions of Synchronet BBS open source software effective immediatly!
Version 2.3 is currently available for DOS and OS/2 platforms.
This version includes:
FidoNet, QWK, and PostLink/RelayNet support
Split-scren multinode chat, internode messaging and telegrams
Programmable menu/command shells and loadable modules
Awesome door support
This version has been Public Domain since 1997 and remains so today.
Version 3.0 is currently available for Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000 platforms.
This version adds:
Up to 250 nodes running in a single process or LAN-distributed
Integrated Telnet server (No SIO/VMODEM/COM-IP/NetModem required)
Integrated FTP server (dynamic indices, QWK xfers, and more)
Integrated Mail server (SPAM filters, relaying, forwarding, and more)
FOSSIL, DOOR32, WWIV, and XSDK external program support
A GNU/Linux port is in the works as well as for other free Unix-like OSes.
Contributing developers are encouraged to join the effort.
http://synchro.net/source.html
MBSE News:
Version 0.33.14 of MBSE has just been released. MBSE is
a Linux bbs software that is an all-inclusive open source package.
The software features a mailer, tosser, file echo processor, combined
with a RA style BBS, and much more.
http://mbse.freezer-burn.org
Centurion BBS News:
After a long break, Douglas Mewis has returned to developing
Centurion 2000 BBS, a project he started last year and then abruptly
halted during the initial beta cycle so that so that he could complete
his degree.
While much of Centurion is based on PowerBBS, it will use the RemoteAccess
JAM messagebase structures, in order to be compatable with the majority
of third party message processing software, and a propritary filebase
using comma seperated values.
Centurion will be a commercial server/client program, so callers will
use a GUI client program to connect to the BBS. Internet options will be
available only to registered users, and in unregistered mode users will
only have 10 minutes of access per day.
Douglas is currently in the process of changing the code to Visual Basic,
the same language that was used in tcRA32 BBS.
http://www.dmsoft.net
EleBBS News:
An official release date of October 29th has been set for EleBBS 0.08g.
More information on whats new can be found in last months news.
http://www.elebbs.com
Update October 16:
TriBBS News:
FreeJack software has sold TriBBS to Frank Prue of PCT Computers.
Frank is currently working on porting TriBBS to Windows, and
adding telnet support.
http://www.tribbs.com