This is a list of notable dial-up bulletin board system (BBS) software packages.

Apple II based

• GBBS (based on ACOS)

Atari based

• BBS Express!

Commodore-based

• 1541 BBS
• 6480 Exchange by David Tingler
• 6485 Exchange by "Ivory Joe"
• 6487 Exchange by Nick Smith
• 64 Exchange BBS by "The Breaker"
• 64 Messenger by Messenger Software
• Ace-Line BBS by Gilligan
• All American BBS by Nickolai Smith
• All American 128 by Nickolai Smith
• ARB BBS by Arthur Brock
• Bizarre 64 by Bill Atchison
• BoneBoard by Randy Schnedler
• Bob's BBS
• BBS64 by Steve Punter
• BBS Construction Set by Will Gaddy
• C*Base by Gunther Birznieks , Jerome P. Yoner, and David Weinehall.
• C-Net 64 by Perspective Software
• C-Net 128 by Perspective Software
• C-Net DS2 by Jim Selleck
• CCGMS BBS by Craig Smith
• Centipede 128 by Adam Fanello
• CHATeau by Eugene Tiffany
• Citadel 64 BBS by K2NE Software
• Color 64 by Greg Pfountz
• Color 64 (128) by Adam Fanello
• Commodore Mania BBS by Don Snider
• Dataquick BBS
• DarkStar BBS by DarkStar Software
• DMBBS by ARTIsoft
• Does the Job BBS by Andrew Bernhardt
• EBBS 64 by Ed Parry
• EBBS 128 by Mike Pugliese
• Electro-Com by Bill Bowers
• Elite BBS by Bill Fink
• Elite Exchange 1 by Stevyn Prothero
• Frontier 128
• Hal's BBS by Richard Buchanan
• Image BBS by New Image Software
• Infoquick BBS by Lew Lasher
• Intelligentsia 128 by Robert S. Murawski
• Ivory BBS by Bill Jackson
• Laser 128 by Chris Timmerberg
• Lightning BBS
• Matchmaker
• McBBS by McGuire/Theobald
• Microram BBS
• Midgaard BBS
• Mike Black BBS by Mike Black
• Omni 128 by Omni Software
• PETBBS by Steve Punter
• Punter BBS by Steve Punter
• RAD BBS
• RAVICS by Adam Jacobs
• RGBBS
• Ribit BBS by J.W. Fulmer
• Satellite BBS by Shaw/Backer
• SCBBS by Chad Stansel
• Star 128
• Stellar Zone by "Mr. X"
• ST/R BBS by Douglas McLaughlin
• Spence XP by Spence/McFarlane
• Spice-Net by Darrell Spice
• Supra 128 by Julian Burger
• Fantasy Rollplaying by Deep Pan Software
• Ultra-Com BBS by PW
• U.E.S. BBS by Willie Goebel
• Vision Color BBS by Vision Software
• VortexNet 128 BBS by Stephen Kunc
• Xavian BBS by Star Tech Software
• ZBBS by "Mr. Bill"
• Zelch 64 BBS by Planet Ink.
• Zelch 128 BBS by Elite Software

CP/M based

• QBBS (QuickBBS)
• TBBS
• XBBS

Macintosh based

• Citadels including Macadel, MacCitadel
• FirstClass (SoftArc)
• Hermes
• Telefinder

MS-DOS based

C

• Celerity
• Citadels including DragCit, Cit86, TurboCit, Citadel+

E

• EleBBS
• Emulex (later Emulex/2)
• Ezycom

F

• Forum PC - One of the most copied BBS sources which spawned a legion of "Forum hacks"
• Fornax - Written by Minh Ma (aka Briareos)

G

• Ghostship

I

• Iniquity BBS

L

• L.S.D. BBS - Written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG)

M

• Major BBS
• Maximus (BBS)
• MBBS
• Mystic BBS [1]

O

• Oblivion/2
• Opus BBS - First written by Wynn Wagner III

P

• PCBoard
• PowerBBS
• ProBoard

R

• RBBS-PC
• RemoteAccess (RA) - Written by Andrew Milner
• Renegade
• Revelation
• RoboBOARD/FX - Written by Seth Hamilton

S

• Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)
• Spitfire

T

• Telegard
• TriBBS [2]

V

• ViSiON
• ViSiON-X

W

• Waffle - Written by Tom Dell, supported UUCP.
• WildCat!
• Worldgroup - The latest version of MajorBBS (MBBS), the last released by Galacticomm. [3]
• WWIV

Multi-platform

• Citadel
• Synchronet
• VBBS/Virtual Advanced

OS/2 based

• AdeptXBBS

Unix based

• Citadels including Citadel/UX, Dave's Own Citadel
• Falken BBS - Linux-based
• FirebirdBBS - Linux-based (see http://www.firebird.org.tw)

External links

• The BBS Software Directory is an attempt to create "a canonical list of all the BBS Software Packages there ever were for any platform," including software archives when possible.