Mystic BBS

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.

• Mystic BBS Website
• Mystic BBS Wiki

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)
• Agency BBS (New Zealand BBS, run by Avon since '13)
• Another F-ing BBS (Anotherbbs.bbsindex.com , Run by Gary Crunk since January '17)
• Arcadia BBS (Arcadia BBS, run by Nazferiti - Features Games, Files, and Gated Usenet)
• BlackICE BBS (German BBS, since '13)
• Captain's Quarters II BBS (CQII BBS website, running on a Mac!)
• Central Ontario Remote BBS
• Clutch BBS (Originally launched in '95 - home of the Acidic Paging Module)
• Cyberia BBS telnet to cyberia.darktech.org
• Datanet BBS Melbourne, Australia SysOp: rEApZ
• Distortion BBS
• Error 1202 BBS (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '19)
• Error 404 BBS (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '14)
• flupH BBS Survnet *Survival & Self reliance Hq* Blocktronic member board
• iNK tWO BBS Ink Two Website, run by Smooth since '13 in Covina, CA
• Leisure Time BBS (Located in New Baden, IL, USA)
• Lunatic Fringe (Located in Vancouver, WA)
• Necronomicon BBS (Originally started on Amiga CNet. Run by Necromaster. Home of RetroNet)
• Never Never Land BBS (419 area code oldest bbs since '89)
• Piranha BBS (<ACiD> board run by caphood, since '95)
• Sinner's Haven II (Originally Created in '89 telegard, '92 OBV/2, recreated in '13 under Mystic)
• SLiME CiTY BBS - Sweden - Dedicated to retro computing and computer security! Running since 2013
• The Bottomless Abyss BBS - Canada - ArakNet/Phenom member board. Home of MRC, Threat Sentry and Hackfest Official BBS.
• The ByteXchange BBS - Texas - Home of Cyber-Net Network and running since 1992!
• The Vortex BBS 864s longest running BBS created in 1996.

• The Zone BBS (Located in Lorain, Ohio)
• 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.