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    SyncTERM

    Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal

    A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL.
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    Downloads: 281 This Week
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    Qodem Terminal Emulator
    Qodem is a a terminal emulator that resembles the BBS-era Qmodem. Includes phonebook, scrollback, capture, X/Y/Zmodem, Kermit, ANSI (+ music) / Avatar / VT102 / Linux emulation, Unicode, and keyboard macros. Connects over serial, ssh, telnet, rlogin.
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    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    PCMan is an easy-to-use telnet client mainly targets BBS users formerly running under MS Windows. PCMan X is a newly developed, open-source and cross-platform version written with wxWidgets, supporting X Window, MS Windows, and Mac OS X.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Termix is a Linux (UNIX) telnet client designed for calling telnet BBS,and SCO ANSI. It aims to behave as DOS terminals did; with proper ANSI parsing, scrolling, and character sets -- all in a DOS terminal-like application
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    The Clans was a popular game written for online BBSes back in the day of their great popularity. It is a text-based game featuring inter-BBS communications. It was written initially for Turbo C++, but has been ported to gcc and MSVC
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Java Terminal eXtreme

    Java terminal system

    JTX is a flexible, extensible, and very fast terminal system. I designed it as an alternative to the venerable SwingTerminal from JTA/JavaSSH. == NOTICE == Due to the perpetual brokenness of SourceForge, the project wiki, issue tracker, and binary downloads have been moved to Chalcodes.com.
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    Atani Software has a primary focus of developing games for various platforms and also try to keep the good old BBS' alive with releases of door games, etc.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    BBMan is a SSH/SFTP/BBS/telnet Client. Free, opensource and multi-platform support (Windows/Linux/Mac). You can get some screenshots in http://bbman.sf.net/
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    BomgaG is a BBS/telnet client(or robot) to make the BBS world much more wonderful/hackable for a unix-lover, you can say it's a unix-version KKman or PCman, but much stronger. You can script in perl to control everything on BBS.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Discuz! Command Prompt is a plugin for Discuz! forum system that emulates the famous DOS environment, written using AJAX and PHP.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    FBBTelnet

    Consola telnet vía web para FBB BBS

    Características Utilización simple (al menos para el cliente). Multiplataforma (aplicación web). Interfaz gráfica escalable adaptable a diferentes formatos / resoluciones. Historial de comandos. Aceleradores: Mensajes nuevos, propios, lectura, estado del bbs, etc. Texto enriquecido. Reconocimiento de palabras clave (url's, correos electrónicos, números de mensaje, licencias, etc). Descarga / Visualización directa de YAPP / 7+ (a implementar).
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    GNU Pipo BBS version 2. A full featured, traditionally styled BBS with support for TELNET, SSH, and HTTP connections, doors, customization, and lots of ANSI art. Runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems. GPL.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    ICUC, (I see, you see) means "What I see, is you see". ICUC allows 2 or more guys to share 1 telnet connnetion. it's also a detachable BBS(telnet) proxy server. What's more, there are timer and trigger to use, user can make a telnet rubost easily.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    JBuzz BBS Server is a telnet daemon which provides several communication facilities, like discussion board and chatting room for clients to experience. In order to extend functions for the system more easily, the feature called "applet" is introduced.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Java based TELNET BBS client. Includes an AWT application and applet compatible with Java 2 (1.4).
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Keeon , keep the interactive connection to internet or other device on by sending unused chars frequently. It create a pty for the interactive program and send chars to the pty like robots if no input from the user entered. Now telnet and ssh are
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    MudPRO: An advanced client for the online game MajorMUD
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    An ANSI drawing tool supporting most formats (ANSI/ASCII), AVATAR, BINARY, PCBOARD. It does support TheDrawFonts file too. It will be a replacement for the good old dos based TheDraw and it is designed in the spirit of ACiD Draw
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    OpenLubbs - Light Usable Bulletin Board System. An Open Source version of the original text BBS used at Lancaster University, UK. The goal is to improve the code and make it web based. The project is not affiliated or endorsed by Lancaster University.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Quickfry MUD is focused on going back to the roots of MUDing. In essence, login, explore, and have fun. There is no steep learning curve like the majority of current MUDs. We will have several neat features, notably bots who hold a grudge.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Simple Ptt Client

    用來上 Ptt 的小程式

    讓你可以暢遊 Ptt.cc !
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    To create a telnet client for use with a program called TWXProxy (http://twx.tbiz.ca/) in a game called TradeWars 2002 (www.eisonline.com). For starters, it will be a basic telnet client, with ANSI colours and extended character support, eventually endin
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    Provides steganographic cloaking for scripts and other data by interspersing sensitive lines with ANSI codes to clear themselves after drawing on a terminal. Front data, commented-out, is displayed instead.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    gqmud is developed by a two man team, mike and chris. Their goal is to provide the linux community with a client that rivals MegaMUD in power. Keep your eyes open, we're serious this time =)
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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    gtermix is a gtk+ telnet client intended for calling BBSes. It utilizes a custom VGA textmode emulating terminal widget that allows it to accurately render bulletin board systems as they were in DOS terminal programs.
    Downloads: 0 This Week
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