Mystic BBS
More info
- Creator
- g00r00 (James Coyle)
- Type
- BBS software
- Released
- 1997
- Website
- mysticbbs.com
Modern BBS software keeping the telnet scene alive on Linux, Windows and the Raspberry Pi.
Mystic BBS has been written since 1997 by g00r00 (James Coyle) and became one of the most popular packages in the BBS revival that telnet triggered. It runs on DOS, Windows, Linux, macOS and Raspberry Pi, and supports FidoNet echomail, door games and ANSI menus — everything a 1990s sysop recognised, only over TCP/IP.
Where Synchronet leans toward the server and scriptability, Mystic aims to be easy to set up and feels familiar to anyone who once ran a Renegade board. Still actively developed, which says something about how hard BBS culture is to kill off.