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Sp00knet
The World's Most Intriguing Echomail Network: The Spot For Your Open-Source Intelligence Briefings
PHATstar
Fishingnet Echomail Network
This is The Scene's Primary Go-To Echomail Network for the Christian Community.
PHATSTAR
The Telnet BBS Guide
This is an archive listing of the connection and contact information for over one thousand active bulletin boards.
BBS Corner
Threat Sentry
A Mystic BBS Mod for Determining Where Your Users Are Logging In From. Features VPN Detection, Country-Based Banning, And Various Threat Indicators.
PHENOM
The Late Night Network (IRC)
The Scene's Tertiary Mode of Communication in the case when MRC and Element/Matrix are down. Hosted off of a PHATstar Society Server.
PHATstar
Anonymous Archivers File Distro Network
Your Place For a File Server Service That Can Plug and Play Right Into Your BBS via The Telnet-Out Function of Modern BBSes. It Has Several Terabytes of Files Available And It Is Family Friendly. Suggested 14+ Age For Users
phatstar
Multi-Relay Chat (MRC)
The Primary Communication Hub For Those in The BBS Scene, with over 100 different BBSes Connected to This Network. It is Real-Time Chat For Any BBS That Has Installed The Mod.
stackfault
Back to The BBS Documentary Series
Al's Geek Lab Presents The Definitive Documentary on Everything to do With Modern BBSing and Many Aspects of the Textmode Scene. Alistair Has Made a Video Series That is Warmly Welcomed by Those in The Scene and Those in The Know. Fully recommended @ 100%
alistair
BBS: The Documentary
This Docuementary Captured The BBS Scene in Interviews With The Founding Personalities of The Scene Before They Passed on. This is a Most Excellent Historical Documentary on The BBS Scene in Al Aspects of Its Founding to Its Present Day. Though The Video is Now Several Years Old it is Still Relevant and Captivating.in Bringing Our Collective History as The Scene Into a Great Archive of Video Footage That Really Represnts Us.
j. scott
Mystic BBS Software
Mystic is The World's Most Modifiable of All Modern BBS Suites. It is like the new Remote Access BBS but With Everything Internet-Based and Every Part of The System Being of The Sweetest Code. It is Most highly recommended: This is the go-to in BBS Software.
g00r00
Mystic BBS Software
Synchronet BBS is the most popular open-source bulletin board system software. It is considered less massively modable, but the software is stable and in active development.
digital man
Moebius ANSI Artwork Editor
Moebius is Blocktroics' take on the ultimate ANSI editor. It is freeware and it works on both Windows adn Linux. It works well and is stable, not crashing, just working.
A. Herbert
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Picoe
Enigma1/2 BBS Server Software
This is the BBS software best used by compter programmers and people with a high level of technical knowledge. It is advanced and not suitable for people who are just starting in this hobby.
NuSkooler
SEXPOTS POTS to TELNET Bridge
Some amazing software that allows you to forward dial-up connections to your computer to any arbitrary TELNET BBS server or other TELNET connections
digitalman
Envato Elements
How ANSI artwork may be made by Artificial Intelligence rathe than just done by the masters in the art scene. This software can make custom simple ANSI graphics. It is in its most embryonic form but will progress to have artpacks made fully by A.I.
envato a.i.
ANSI Love
Ever want to convert some ANSI grapics into PNG for use on The Web or whatever? This software is for you.
cleaner
The 16colo.rs artpack archive. They host over a thousand art packs from the 90's to the present day.
This archive surpasses the Dark Domain ACiD Artpacks archivee, this is the go-to site that hosts infopacks from many groups over a long time period
16colo.rs
The Echomail Networking Book
This book is several hundred pages in length and detail swith everything to do with echomail networks from a Mystic BBS perspective.
PHATstar
The First ANSI Graphic Done by Artificial Intelligence
This is the very first ANSI graphic made by an Artificial Intelligence. As you can see it is in its infancy but it will progress, maybe taking the jobs away from ANSI artists...
Envato
fTelnet
fTelnet allows for people to log on to your BBS from within a webpage.
Parrish
"BBS" : The First Album by MeaTLoTioN
The wordsmith MeaTLoTioN [Christian Sacks] has released his first album, with many BBS and Textmode themes included. Album released date February 16th, 2025
MeaTLoTioN
The Dark Domain Artpack Archive
The entire ACiD Artpacks Archive, collecting the majority of the artpacks from around the 90's into 2003.
dark domain
TexTalk News: Going Full On Mad Retro
The abandoned TexTalk News is giving it a second go at producing the quality news reporting on the BBS Scene that it once knew.. Textmode Computing all the way!! w00t!
PHATstar
"BBS" : The First Album by MeaTLoTioN
StingRay's new A-NET-ONLINE Game Server is a major competitor to BBSLink and DoorParty. There is a goal of 1000 text/ANSI door games to be online within the year's end. Sysops can use the main screen interface to load the door games, or use codes to load up one specific game alone. This is truly a work of art. Bravo!
StingRay
Bulletin Board System Scene Bounties: Get Paid to Improve The Scene
Active Bounties
Paid in $USD via PayPal to Anywhere in The World
CeeBeeTee: Computer Based Training
This would be a study aid that would be fully modular, so people could make their own testing packages, load them into CeeBeeTee and study for their exams using a multi-choice answering system. BOUNTY: Please Contact Us
Setting up a Full-Fledged IRC Server for PHATstar Internal Communications
This would include the installation, setup, and final testing of an enterprise IRC Server software package. It would need to have an SSL/TLS certificate as well as NickServ and ChanServ functionality. BOUNTY: $40 USD
Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator BBS Door
This would be a fun door game that would follow the configuration of the actual Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator test system, finding which category of personality of the person entering the quiz out of the 16 personality domains, getting to know yourself better and having a fun time doing it. BOUNTY: Please Contact Us
ANSI Design For PHATstar Services
Luciano Ayres (Enzo) of Blocktronics did our graphics in the past but he has been away for over a year now and we're looking for more people to do menu screens and splash intro screens. Our software needs to look attractive so we need artists who can do that for us. BOUNTY: $1 USD per line, with a single 80x25 screen making you $25 USD
Seting up Linux's LRZSZ on Mystic BBS as a Protocol Option
We would like to have various z-modem file transfer protocol suites to host the transfer of files through our BBSes and our File Distro Nets. If one suite fails then there will be other services that will work, diversifying available suites to transfer files.
BOUNTY: $25 USD
Sourcing Out Sought After Files
Such as RedFox AnyDVD (latest version) for archiving of our discs internally and not for pirating purposes. BOUNTY: $40 USD