Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: MRO to xbit on Thu Jul 03 2025 09:22 pm

If Spitfire BBS can be telnet accessible, I'm sure TAG can :) SF is not foss
Woohoo! > https://x-bit.org/32bit.html

but don't you have to change the date or something?

yes. no but's about it.
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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: TOG to Digital Man on Fri Jul 04 2025 01:20 am

Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Digital Man to xbit on Thu Jul 03 2025 01:58 pm

Re: 90s bbs software popularity

I used to run SBBS ( SuperBBS ) was what it was called at the time
back when I was younger. I've been trying to figure out how to get
one of these running again for a minute, and I'm really glad I got
mine up! I miss the days of dialing into these and playing the door
games and what not. I used to play Tradwars, LORD, and BRE all the

i played with a cool AI bbs that would change to meet the user's interests. i �wish i could find that sucker. it was pretty cool. like if it thought you �were a krad d00d it would slowly change the interface strings and options �from being a straight laced boring bbs software to a 'leet' style.
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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: xbit to MRO on Fri Jul 04 2025 06:17 am

but don't you have to change the date or something?

yes. no but's about it.

well that's kinda deal breaker for me. if i have to modify
the date to something it's not i'm not going to use it. i'd rather emulate
the interface.
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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: xbit to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 07:15 am

Just wonding if anyone has any insight on dos bbs software popularity back i the 1990s. I know BBS software could be split into categories ranging from

I want to say it was regional, because when I talk to BBSers from other states, they report different software being "dominant" in their area.

In Arizona, it was very much split between public domain and pirate boards. Almost all of the pirate ones ran some Forum derivitive, like Vision-X (very popular at the time). The multi-line boards tended to run MajorBBS. The public domain ones had Wildcat! and I think some Citadel and Spitfire. Oh, I just remembered "Celerity" as another possible Forum hack that was big.

We even had a couple 8bit BBSes (Atari and Commodore) stick around through the 90s. Unfortunately, I don't think we had any Atari ST or Amiga ones, at least not for any extended period of time. There may have been an Amiga one around for a little while.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: phigan to xbit on Fri Jul 04 2025 12:21 pm

In Arizona, it was very much split between public domain and pirate boards. Almost all of the pirate ones ran some Forum derivitive, like Vision-X (very

Hah, after reading some of the other responses, I realized I totally blocked out WWIV, Telegard, and Renegade out of my memory :). In both public domain and pirate boards, there were TONS of those spread out. Like, for every other BBS software board, there were two running one of those staples.

PCBoard was another one in the public domain list (here in AZ) that I missed.

Surprisingly, we didn't have many TAG boards.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Digital Man to xbit on Thu Jul 03 2025 01:58 pm

Re: 90s bbs software popularity

I used to run SBBS ( SuperBBS ) was what it was called at the time
back when I was younger. I've been trying to figure out how to get
one of these running again for a minute, and I'm really glad I got
mine up! I miss the days of dialing into these and playing the door
games and what not. I used to play Tradwars, LORD, and BRE all the

i played with a cool AI bbs that would change to meet the user's interests. i �wish i could find that sucker. it was pretty cool. like
if it thought you �were a krad d00d it would slowly change the
interface strings and options �from being a straight laced boring bbs software to a 'leet' style.

Wow, that is cool!

So, you saw it change to a weak, boring, fat, ignorant, stupid style??



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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Digital Man to xbit on Thu Jul 03 2025 13:58:23

I get that you're asking about BBS software popularity; you might find those details/stats from BBS lists of the time (e.g. the USBBS list,

Also, check out early issues of Boardwatch magazine, also on archive.org. Every month they published lists of BBSes currently running, which included what BBS software they used. Occasionally, they would rank the most popular software at the time.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Mortar to All on Sat Jul 05 2025 04:03 pm

Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Digital Man to xbit on Thu Jul 03 2025 13:58:23

I get that you're asking about BBS software popularity; you might
find those details/stats from BBS lists of the time (e.g. the USBBS
list,

Also, check out early issues of Boardwatch magazine, also on
archive.org. Every month they published lists of BBSes currently
running, which included what BBS software they used. Occasionally,
they would rank the most popular software at the time.

archive.org is getting its ass sued off so grab what you can.
i'm not sure if they will be sued out of existance or just regulated.

they are breaking copyright laws.
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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: xbit to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 07:15 am

Just wonding if anyone has any insight on dos bbs software popularity back in the 1990s.

I was in Fidonet from about 1987-97. All the systems I ran were in DOS.

There was Opus-cbcs, QuickBBS and RemoteAccess... I think that was the only three I ran during that period but I might be wrong... the brain cells aren't what they used to be.

I ran more mailers... SEAdog, BinkleyTerm, FrontDoor and Intermail.

But I must admit... I like Synchronet better than any of them.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: xbit to All on Thu Jul 03 2025 07:15 am

Just wonding if anyone has any insight on dos bbs software popularity back in the 1990s. I know BBS software could be split into categories ranging from hobby to commercial and due to the fact its 2025 numbers wont really be available. That said, its a fun topic. I remember some rage posts

I ran PCBoard 15.x in the early 90's
I lived fairly close to Clark Development co. (The makers of PCBoard).
I used to drop in and chat all the time.
There were a lot of good options back then for running a BBS, like wildcat, TAG, PCBoard, spitfire, searchlight, renegade, etc.....


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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Mortar to Nightfox on Thu Jul 03 2025 02:36 pm

Hey, glad to see TAG represented. That was probably the most popular platform in my area, and the one I used on my short-lived BBS (Shades of Gray). I actually found a copy of it online. I'm hoping I can modify it to be Telnet accessible.

Why not just use Synchronet or Mystic?
I run a BBS on both those platforms.
Both are pretty easy to learn and set up.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Denn to Mortar on Sun Jul 06 2025 16:08:11

Why not just use Synchronet or Mystic?

I'll probably take a look at those, too. I've been following the Syncronet discussion group, and compared to TAG, it's much more complex. Mystic I haven't really looked at since I hang out on a SBBS board.

Both are pretty easy to learn and set up.

It's all relative.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: Denn to Mortar on Sun Jul 06 2025 04:08 pm

Re: 90s bbs software popularity

I have both setup also. I am trying to figure out how to get fido net and all of the other message groups on it. I'm sure I am over complicating it, same thing with trying to get doors installed. I am also trying to change the login and log screens but no luck yet! hahah I just need to sit down with it for a while to figure this stuff out.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: 10mm to Denn on Mon Aug 18 2025 02:50 pm

I have both setup also. I am trying to figure out how to get fido net and al of the other message groups on it. I'm sure I am over complicating it, same thing with trying to get doors installed. I am also trying to change the

Just don't think you'll ever be *done*. The fun of this hobby is that there's always something else to tweak, automate, improve...

I always joked that the time I finally got everything working just as I thought it should was the time I turned everything off and became a farmer.

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: 10mm to Denn on Mon Aug 18 2025 02:50 pm

Re: 90s bbs software popularity

I have both setup also. I am trying to figure out how to get fido net and all of the other message groups on it. I'm sure I am over complicating it, same thing with trying to get doors installed. I am also trying to change the login and log screens but no luck yet! hahah I just need to sit down with it for a while to figure this stuff out.

I haven't tried setting up fido, I have set up many Doors though.
have you looked into bbslink.net ?

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: MRO to xbit on Thu Jul 03 2025 10:51 am

i'm in the upper midwest. the bbs softwares we ran were a few odd ones, and then renegade, iniquity, telegard, RA, and tbbs. oh a few really popular vadv bbses.

Over the years I have played with most bbs software's that are out there some of my favorites were Celerity , Oblivion , Vision-x , Renegade , Telegard and some of the other rip offs's of Renegade and Telegard. Wildcat and winserver were nice also. I actually have a ton of BBS Warez including fully registerd BBS Software doors , utils and miscs on my board if your intrested in playing
around with some of the older warez

BRoKeNMiND

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: BRoKeNMiND to MRO on Thu Aug 21 2025 07:09 pm

have a ton of BBS Warez including fully registerd BBS Software
doors , utils and miscs on my board if your intrested in playing
around with some of the older warez

uh, pretty sure most of them came from me. i'm on your bbs and i see them right now.
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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: MRO to BRoKeNMiND on Thu Aug 21 2025 07:44 pm

uh, pretty sure most of them came from me. i'm on your bbs and i see them right now

You might have a copy of them but most likly they did not come from you but it's possible I might have grabbed something from your board at one time or another. I lost a lot of stuff a few years ago and have downloaded a bunch from synchronet boards and from friends from back in the day.

BRoKeNMiND

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Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: BRoKeNMiND to MRO on Sat Aug 23 2025 03:46 pm

Re: 90s bbs software popularity
By: MRO to BRoKeNMiND on Thu Aug 21 2025 07:44 pm

uh, pretty sure most of them came from me. i'm on your bbs and i see them right now

You might have a copy of them but most likly they did not come from
you but it's possible I might have grabbed something from your board
at one time or another. I lost a lot of stuff a few years ago and
have downloaded a bunch from synchronet boards and from friends
from back in the day.

i mean like literally i put them together. they came from doorgames with reg codes i put together with datastream or my codes or shit i found in the wild.
like if you have something named doorgame.registered.zip it's me.

it's no big deal i was a big supplier of bbs files for a long time.

I'm also the guy that got ahold of bbsesfiles' stuff. i didn't have
the stuff he really coveted because he didn't store it off site. i had to sit on it until he died but it was pretty much the same stuff from his website with a few odds and ends.

I dont want anything unless i dont have it. it's pointless though,
there's no users now anyways.
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