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FBB (F6FBB) – packet radio BBS system, still in use. [5] GBBS (Graphics BBS) – used in the Melbourne area. GT-Power; L.S.D. BBS – written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG). The Major BBS; Maximus; McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald. Opus-CBCS – first written by Wynn Wagner III. PCBoard; PegaSys; ProBoard BBS – written by Philippe ...
Blue Board is a bulletin board system software created by Martin Sikes (1968–2007) for the Commodore 64 in the 1980s in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and sold worldwide. Due to optimized code and memory allocation , Blue Board boasted very fast performance for a BBS on that hardware platform.
C-Net DS2 (Developers System, Second Generation) was a full featured, single-line, bulletin board system (BBS) software system released in 1986 for the Commodore 64 microcomputer. The DS2 system was notable in that its authors proved that it was possible to perform significant and useful serious computing tasks on a hardware platform with such ...
Synchronet is a multiplatform BBS software package, with current ports for Microsoft Windows, Linux, and BSD variants. Past versions also ran on MS-DOS and OS/2 , but support for those platforms were dropped in version 3.0 (circa 2000).
By 1985, games were an estimated 60 to 70% of Commodore 64 software. [40] Computer Gaming World stated in January 1985 that companies such as Epyx that survived the video game crash did so because they "jumped on the Commodore bandwagon early". [41] Over 35% of SSI's 1986 sales were for the C64, ten points higher than for the Apple II.
Commodore 64 game software has been remarkably well documented and preserved - a considerable feat when taking the amount of software available for the platform into consideration. The GameBase 64 (GB64) organization has an online database of game information, which at version 7 holds information for 21,000 unique game titles. The current ...
Heavily influenced by the works of Ken Spence and his Spence XP BBS system of which there were two versions written in 1985 and 1987 respectively, as well as Ed Parry's EBBS and Clarke Development's PCBoard, the McBBS software was originally developed for the Commodore 64 computer but was ported over to the DOS platform in 1992 (starting with ...
A welcome screen for the Free-net bulletin board, from 1994. A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), [1] is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program.