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.

Software & Configuration

 * Mystic BBS Website
 * Mystic BBS Wiki

Bulletin Board Systems
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)
 * [telnet://agency.bbs.nz Agency BBS] (New Zealand BBS, run by Avon since '13)
 * [telnet://anotherbbs.bbsindex.com Another F-ing BBS] (Anotherbbs.bbsindex.com, Run by Gary Crunk since January '17)
 * [telnet://bbs.arcadiabbs.com Arcadia BBS] (Arcadia BBS, run by Nazferiti - Features Games, Files, and Gated Usenet)
 * [telnet://blackice.bbsindex.de BlackICE BBS] (German BBS, since '13)
 * [telnet://cqbbs.ddns.net:6800 Captain's Quarters II BBS] (CQII BBS website, running on a Mac!)
 * [telnet://centralontarioremote.com:2300 Central Ontario Remote BBS]
 * [telnet://clutch.darktech.org Clutch BBS] (Originally launched in '95 - home of the Acidic Paging Module)
 * [telnet://cyberia.darktech.org Cyberia BBS] telnet to cyberia.darktech.org
 * [telnet://datanetbbs.net Datanet BBS] Melbourne, Australia SysOp: rEApZ
 * [telnet://d1st.org Distortion BBS]
 * [telnet://Error404bbs.DDns.net Error 1202 BBS] (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '19)
 * [telnet://Error404bbs.DDns.net Error 404 BBS] (Located in Perrysburg Ohio ran by Solaris since '14)
 * [telnet://fluph.darktech.org flupH BBS] Survnet *Survival & Self reliance Hq* Blocktronic member board
 * [telnet://bbs.inktwo.com iNK tWO BBS] Ink Two Website, run by Smooth since '13 in Covina, CA
 * Leisure Time BBS (Located in New Baden, IL, USA)
 * [telnet://fringe.darktech.org Lunatic Fringe] (Located in Vancouver, WA)
 * [telnet://necrobbs.strangled.net Necronomicon BBS] (Originally started on Amiga CNet. Run by Necromaster. Home of RetroNet)
 * [telnet://neverneverlandbbs.com Never Never Land BBS] (419 area code oldest bbs since '89)
 * [telnet://piranha.acid.org Piranha BBS] ( board run by caphood, since '95)
 * [telnet://bbs.sinnershaven.com:23 Sinner's Haven II] (Originally Created in '89 telegard, '92 OBV/2, recreated in '13 under Mystic)
 * [telnet://bbs.retrohack.se SLiME CiTY BBS] - Sweden - Dedicated to retro computing and computer security! Running since 2013
 * [telnet://bbs.bottomlessabyss.net:2023 The Bottomless Abyss BBS] - Canada - ArakNet/Phenom member board. Home of MRC, Threat Sentry and Hackfest Official BBS.
 * [telnet://bbs.thebytexchange.com The ByteXchange BBS] - Texas - Home of Cyber-Net Network and running since 1992!
 * The Vortex BBS 864s longest running BBS created in 1996.


 * [telnet://zonebbs.net The Zone BBS] (Located in Lorain, Ohio)
 * [telnet://bbs.crnet.net:1023 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.