Renegade (BBS)

Renegade grew up around 1991 from the source code of Telegard and became one of the most widespread BBS packages for MS-DOS, especially on boards running ANSI-heavy menus, door games and file areas. It was known for easily edited menus and an active modding culture where sysops swapped custom skins and ACS-based access rules. Where slicker packages like PCBoard cost money, Renegade was free and hackable, which suited the young scene that ran most underground boards. When the internet knocked out dial-up BBSes around 1996–98, Renegade lingered in hobby circles, and is still maintained on and off.