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At the heart of our advantage over other computer users was, of course, PETSCII,
with its extremely easy access to color and graphics characters which transmitted
unconverted across the modem for all to see. Another was, again, the price
of our machines. When 14 year old kids could get their hands on a computer,
modem, and all the spare time of teen years, lots could and did happen.
End of speil.
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opinion. Programs have been made available where they are explicitly
shareware or freeware, where they have no copyright notice, or where
the copyright and all support has plainly expired. Any programs posted
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A BBS is a private online dial-up service run on a single home computer. If someone
wished to access a BBS, they would load into their computer a text-based "terminal"
program, with which they could dial and connect to the BBS via their modem. Once
online, the user could read online message, send and receive email, play online games,
chat with the BBS owner, and download programs from transfer areas. Typically, only
one user could dial into a BBS at a time, meaning telephone busy signals were common.
Well, before the internet was the thing, BBSs were. And in their hey-day (which I
guestimate is roughly between 1984 and 1993) Commodore BBSs were the best.
We had color graphics, they didn't. We had online graphic movies, they didn't.
Our BBS programs were better written, provided better services to the SysOp
and the user, and were just plain more powerful then anything the PC and Apple
folks were hurling out.
Now! With all this in mind, I bring you a series of pages dedicated to the
amazing BBS programs we all loved to call and for some of us, run. If you
see any programs you know about missing, and have access to programs, text,
pictures, or any other material you think should be here, by all means click
on my mail-to button at the bottom of this page.
Program Author Version(s) reviewed Download
1541 BBS ? (need access to this)
6480 Exchange David Tingler 2.2 6480.d64.gz
6485 Exchange "Ivory Joe" 4.4 7.0e 6485-7_d64.zip
6487 Exchange Nick Smith 8.0 6487v8.d64.gz
64 Exchange BBS "The Breaker" 12.0 exchange12.d64.gz
64 Messenger Messenger Software 4.5 64mess.arc
Ace-Line BBS Gilligan 3.5 ace35.d64.gz
All American BBS Nickolai Smith 1.0 5.2 6.1 7.1 8.5 (9.6, 11.6 pending) aa64v61.arc
All American 128 Nickolai Smith 5.9 (12.1) aabbs128-59_d64.zip
Apollo 64 Jeff Heaton (1.0 review pending)
ARB BBS Arthur Brock (5602 review pending)
B-NET BBS ? (review pending)
Bandit BBS ? (review pending)
Bird Brain BBS Leslie Bird (review pending)
Bizarre 64 Bill Atchison (need access to this)
Blue Board Martin Sikes (need access to this)
Bob's BBS Bob? (review pending)
Boring BBS Everyone (1.0 review pending)
BBS Const. Set Will Gaddy 9.9F bbsconkit_d64.zip
C*Base Gunther Birznieks 3.0 (Web), cbase30_d64.zip
C-Net 64 Perspective Soft. 10.0, 11.1, 12.0 Commercial, but Hidden.
C-Net 128 Perspective Soft. 1.0 - 7.0 cnet128.zip
C-Net DS2 Jim Selleck 2.5
C64BBS Mikael Lennroth (6.02 review pending)
Castle BBS ? (review pending)
CBMBBS ? (need access to this)
CCGMS BBS Craig Smith (need access to this)
Centipede 128 Adam Fanello 1.0 centfree2.zip
CHATeau Eugene Tiffany 1.0 (Demo) chateau_d64.zip
Circle of Wizards Steven Derby (need access to this)
Citadel 64 BBS K2NE Software 87.07.15 citadel64.d64.gz
Classic SwapShop Ex ? (review pending)
Color 64 Greg Pfountz 7.0 7.37 (8.0) color64_d64.zip (v7) color64v8_d64.zip (v8)
Color 64 (128) Adam Fanello -
Commodore Mania BBS Don Snider 5.1 - 6.0 cmbbs60_d64.zip
Commline 64 Vince Quaresima (need access to this)
DarkStar BBS D.S.S. (need new copy) darkstar30_d64.zip
Dataquick BBS Tejas Consulting (3.0 review pending)
Dead Zone BBS FX Software dzbbs.d64.gz
Deadlock BBS Deadlock SW (7.1 review pending)
Delta BBS DeltaSoft (4.0 review pending)
Dial-Your-Match 128 Matchmaker Ent. (review pending)
DirCon BBS Jay Winick (3.0 review pending)
Discovery BBS Murray Keen (need access to this)
DLBBS ? (7.1 review pending)
DMBBS ARTIsoft 4.8 dmbbs48_d64.zip
Does the Job BBS Andrew Bernhardt (review pending) dtj.zip
Dragonfire BBS 128 Jim Young (need access to this)
EBBS 64 Ed Parry 3.3 - 3.4 eebbs167.arc
EBBS 128 Mike Pugliese 4.7 e8bbs47.d64.gz
Electro-Com Alex Tucker 5.0 electrocom50.d64.gz
Elite BBS Bill Fink 1.0C (not released)
Elite Exchange 1 Stevyn Prothero (185Q review pending)
Fantasy Rollplaying Deep Pan Software 1.12 frbbs_d64.zip
Frontier 128 ? (need access to this)
HAL Secretary Robert S. Shaw (review pending)
Hal's BBS Richard Buchanan 4.6f hal.d64.gz
ICE BBS Bayou Telecomm (1.1 review pending)
Image BBS New Image Soft. 1.2A image12a_d64.zip
Infoquick BBS Lew Lasher (1.0 review pending) infoquick_d64.zip
Intelligentsia 128 Robert S. Murawski 1.0A INTG100.ZIP
Ivory BBS Bill Jackson 2.0 - 3.2, 6.0 ivory32.d64.gz (6.0 pending)
Laser 128 Chris Timmerberg (need better copy of 2.0PD)
Lightning BBS ? (need access to this)
Matchmaker ? (need access to this)
Mechan1/M1 David Mason (need access to this)
MBBS Mark Parity (1.2 review pending)
McBBS McGuire/Theobald (need access to this)
Microram BBS Eugene Tiffany (review pending)
Midgaard BBS ? (need access to this)
Mike Black BBS Mike Black? (need access to this)
Mineset 64 Paul Visovich (need access to this)
NCBBS Stephen Chan (review pending)
Net-64 Scott Markowitz (review pending)
NORAD BBS ? (review pending)
Omni 128 Omni Software 1.0 (need a copy of this)
Online ? (need access to this)
Pirate BBS ? (review pending)
ProtoLinc 128 BBS Tom Brown (review pending) 1.6
Punter BBS Steve Punter (review pending)
RAD BBS James Williams (4.2b review pending)
RAVICS Adam Jacobs (need access to this)
RGBBS ? (need access to this)
Ribit BBS J.W. Fulmer 3.0, 4.0, 7.5 ribitbbs.arc
Satellite BBS Shaw/Backer 1.0 sattelite.d64.gz
SCBBS Chad Stansel 3.0 scbbsv3.arc
Searchlight 128 Frank LaRosa (need access to this)
Sequel BBS (need access to this) 2.0
Spectrum BBS Sean ? (need access to this)
Spence XP Spence/McFarlane 6.4, 6.8 6.4, 6.8
Spice-Net Darrell Spice (need access to this)
Star 128 ? (need access to this)
Stellar Zone "Mr. X" stellar.d64.gz
ST/R BBS Douglas McLaughlin 3.9 strbbs_d64.zip
Stock Exchange Tom Conway (need access to this)
Superboard Greg Francis 2.5i (not available)
Supra 128 Julian Burger 4.2 SUPRA.ZIP
SynTech BBS ? (review pending)
Stock Exchange Tom Conway (need access to this)
The Track BBS Bill Cannon (review pending)
Total Telecomm Sys Charles Van Lingen 64.4
Ultra-Com BBS PW 1.1, 1.3 ucbbs13.d64.gz
U.E.S. BBS Willie Goebel 7.7 ues770_d64.zip
Vision Color BBS Vision Software 1.00 vision_d64.zip
VortexNet 128 BBS Stephen Kunc 4.6 VTNT46.ZIP
Xavian BBS Star Tech Software xavian_d64.zip
ZBBS "Mr. Bill" 1.2 zbbs_d64.zip
Zelch 64 BBS Planet Ink. 1.0 - 3.7 zelch30.arc
Zelch 128 BBS Elite Software 1.0 - 2.0 1.0, 2.0, 2.0+ incomplete w/src