Mystic BBS
Original author(s) | James Coyle |
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Stable release |
1.11
/ November 6, 2015 |
Preview release |
1.12 Alpha 39
/ April 20, 2018 |
Written in | FreePascal |
Operating system | DOS, Windows, OS/2, OS X, Linux |
Platform | IA_32, x86-64, ARM |
Type | BBS |
License | Proprietary freeware |
Website |
www |
Mystic BBS is a bulletin board system software program that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 under the MS-DOS platform. It has since 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 Telegard and Renegade 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 BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP and FTP mailer
- Built in AreaFix and FileFix functionality and full fileecho support
- A basic HTTP server
- 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 programming language
- DOS CP437 and UTF8 character translations
- Dynamic menus including menu editor, and fully customizable prompts
- Multiple user-selectable themes
- DOOR32 support in addition to various DOS-type door formats
- Automatic random ANSI display (i.e. ansi.ans, ansi.an1, ansi.an2, etc. would display randomly)
- A fully featured ACS (access control system) and MCI display codes
- 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.
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