Mystic BBS explained
Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 for MS-DOS. It has been ported to Microsoft Windows, OS/2, OS X, and Linux (Intel and ARM based systems such as the Raspberry Pi). Mystic was designed to be a spiritual successor to the Renegade (BBS) and Telegard bulletin board systems.
Some of the more notable capabilities of Mystic BBS include:
- Integrated Telnet, SSH, RLogin, FTP, BinkP, HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP servers with IPv4 + IPv6 support
- Full 5D compliant FidoNet BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP & FTP mailers
- Built in AreaFix and FileFix functionality and full fileecho support
- Integrated QWK and QWKE networking via FTP
- Integrated text and ANSI editors, message editing with on-the-fly spell checking and word suggestions
- Proprietary scripting language called Mystic Programming Language (MPL)
- Embedded PYTHON 2.x and 3.x programming languages
- DOS CP437 and UTF8 character translations, terminal sizes up to 160x60
- Dynamic menus including menu editor, and fully customizable prompts
- Multiple user-selectable themes
- DOOR32 support in addition to various DOS-type door formats
- A fully featured ACS (access control system) and MCI display codes
- Modern security features such as TLS v1.2+, 512-bit PBKDF2 password storage, and AES-256 encrypted Netmail
- 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
Bulletin Board Systems
Here's a small selection of BBS that currently use Mystic software (alphabetical by BBS name):
- [telnet]://terranempire.ddns.net:1017] (Emperor Kirk, your sysop, Mirror universe of Enterprise, Vintage computer theme)
- [telnet://agency.bbs.nz Agency BBS] (New Zealand BBS, run by Avon since '13)
- [telnet://anotherbbs.bbsindex.com Another F-ing BBS] (Anotherbbs.bbsindex.com , Run by Gary Crunk since January '17)
- [telnet://bbs.arcadiabbs.com Arcadia BBS] (Arcadia BBS, run by Nazferiti - Features Games, Files, and Gated Usenet)
- [telnet://blackice.bbsindex.de BlackICE BBS] (German BBS, since '13)
- [telnet://cqbbs.ddns.net:6800 Captain's Quarters II BBS] (CQII BBS website, running on a Mac!)
- [telnet://centralontarioremote.com:2300 Central Ontario Remote BBS]
- [telnet://clutch.darktech.org Clutch BBS] (Originally launched in '95 - home of the Acidic Paging Module)
- [telnet://cyberia.darktech.org Cyberia BBS] telnet to cyberia.darktech.org
- [telnet://datanetbbs.net Datanet BBS] Melbourne, Australia SysOp: rEApZ
- [telnet://d1st.org Distortion BBS]
- [telnet://Error404bbs.DDns.net Error 1202 BBS] (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '19)
- [telnet://Error404bbs.DDns.net Error 404 BBS] (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '14)
- [telnet://fluph.darktech.org flupH BBS] Survnet *Survival & Self reliance Hq* Blocktronic member board
- [telnet://bbs.inktwo.com iNK tWO BBS] Ink Two Website, run by Smooth since '13 in Covina, CA
- Leisure Time BBS (Located in New Baden, IL, USA)
- [telnet://fringe.darktech.org Lunatic Fringe] (Located in Vancouver, WA)
- [telnet://necrobbs.strangled.net Necronomicon BBS] (Originally started on Amiga CNet. Run by Necromaster. Home of RetroNet)
- [telnet://neverneverlandbbs.com Never Never Land BBS] (419 area code oldest bbs since '89)
- [telnet://piranha.acid.org Piranha BBS] ( board run by caphood, since '95)
- [telnet://bbs.sinnershaven.com:23 Sinner's Haven II] (Originally Created in '89 telegard, '92 OBV/2, recreated in '13 under Mystic)
- [telnet://bbs.retrohack.se SLiME CiTY BBS] - Sweden - Dedicated to retro computing and computer security! Running since 2013
- [telnet://bbs.bottomlessabyss.net:2023 The Bottomless Abyss BBS] - Canada - ArakNet/Phenom member board. Home of MRC, Threat Sentry and Hackfest Official BBS.
- [telnet://bbs.thebytexchange.com The ByteXchange BBS] - Texas - Home of Cyber-Net Network and running since 1992!
- The Vortex BBS 864s longest running BBS created in 1996.
- [telnet://zonebbs.net The Zone BBS] (Located in Lorain, Ohio)
- [telnet://bbs.crnet.net:1023 CrNet BBS] (Located in Long Island, NY)
To connect to these systems, a Telnet client designed to access BBS systems such as NetRunner is recommended.
