Free bbs software for linux

RBBS is a bulletin board system with Web interface. Users of RBBS can post and response to articles. As the principal purpose of RBBS is to be used as such communication system as BBS, it is useful for individual use and for one-to-many communication. The following are features of RBBS.
Accessibility
Articles is structured into chapters, paragraphs, and so on in the text with XML. The appearance of articles is defined with style sheet. Since document structure and presentation are separated, transmission of information corresponding to various needs in the Web environment is attained. Moreover, because Wiki-style format is supported, you can write and edit articles easily.
Floating Threads
When a response is attached to an article, the order of the article becomes the top of the page. Since articles to which responses are often attached are displayed in an exhibitionist manner, users can catch up popular topics easily. Moreover, because each response is only by one line, lighthearted communication like chat is taken.
Atom Syndication
In order for users to check new articles and responses easily, Atom feeds are delivered. Using a news reader supporting Atom, users can check some news site and RBBS at the same time.
RBBS is available on Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, and Windows (Cygwin). Other UNIX systems are also. As RBBS is implemented with the C language, no environment for running a scripting language is needed. RBBS is a free software licensed under the GNU General Public License.
Enhancements:
- User interface was enhanced.
- The format of the log file was modified.
- Release: 1.0.16

WWW::BBSWatch can send, via email, messages posted to a WWW bulletin board.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::BBSWatch; # should really be a subclass

sub WWW::BBSWatch::article_list { # generates warning (rightly so)
my $self = shift;
my $content = shift;
return ($$content =~ m%($self->{bbs_url}?read=d*)%gs);
}
BBSWatch->new(-MAIL => me,
-BBS_URL => http://www.foo.org/cgi-bin/bbs.pl)->retrieve;
There are many interesting discussions that take place on World Wide Web Bulletin Boards, but I do not have the patience to browse to each article. I can process email and newsgroups many times faster than a WWW bulletin board because of the lag inherent in the web. Instead of ignoring this wealth of information, WWW::BBSWatch was created. It will monitor a World Wide Web Bulletin Board and email new postings to you. The email headers are as correct as possible, including reasonable From, Subject, Date, Message-Id and References entries.
This module requires LWP::UserAgent and MIME::Lite.
INTERFACE
$b = WWW::BBSWatch->new
Arguments are:
-BBS_URL: The URL of the bulletin boards index page. This field is required.
-MAIL: The email address to send mail to
-MDA: Sets the mail delivery agent by calling MIME::Lite::send(HOW, HOWARGS). If a scalar value is passed in, it is passed as send(" sendmail?, $mda_value). If an array ref is provided, send(@$mda_value) is called.
-DB: Basename of the database that keeps track of visited articles
-WARN_TIMEOUT: Number of seconds before warning message is sent proclaiming inability to contact BBS_URL page. Default is 10,800 (3 hours).
-MAX_ARTICLES: Maximum number of articles to send in one batch. Default is essentially all articles.
-VERBOSE: Controls the amount of informative output. Useful values are 0, 1, 2. Default is 0 (completely silent).

$b->retrieve([$catchup])

This method emails new bulletin board messages. If the optional parameter catchup is true, messages will be marked as read without being emailed. Nothing useful will happen unless the article_list method is defined to return the list of articles from the BBSs index page.

WWW::BBSWatch uses the LWP::UserAgent module to retrieve the index and articles. It honors firewall proxies by calling the LWP::UserAgent::env_proxy method. So if you are behind a firewall, define the environment variable http_proxy and your firewall will be handled correctly.

OurNet::BBSApp::Sync is a Perl module to sync between BBS article groups.

SYNOPSIS

my $sync = OurNet::BBSApp::Sync->new({
artgrp => $local->{boards}{board1}{articles},
rartgrp => $remote->{boards}{board2}{articles},
param => {
lseen => 0,
rseen => 0,
remote => bbs.remote.org,
backend => BBSAgent,
board => board2,
lmsgid => ,
msgids => {
articles => [
,
,
],
archives => [
,
,
],
},
},
force_fetch => 0,
force_send => 0,
force_none => 0,
msgidkeep => 128,
recursive => 0,
clobber => 1,
backend => BBSAgent,
logfh => *STDOUT,
callback => sub { },
});

$sync->do_fetch(archives);
$sync->do_send;

OurNet::BBSApp::Sync performs a sophisticated synchronization algorithm on two OurNet::BBS ArticleGroup objects. It operates on the first one (lartgrp)s behalf, updates whats being done in the param field, and attempts to determine the minimally needed transactions to run.

The two methods, do_fetch and do_send could be used independently. Beyond that, note that the interface might change in the future, and currently its only a complement to the ebx toolkit.

BlackNova Traders project is a PHP/MySQL Web-based multi-player strategy game.

BlackNova Traders is a strategy game, loosely based on the old BBS games of Tradewars, Galactic Warzone, and Ultimate Universe, but multiplayer and Web-based. It involves space trading, conflict, and diplomacy.

Two things happend as the game grew in popularity:

-Ron was kindly asked by said hosting service to find other hosting. (at the time the game was serving over 4 million pages a month)

-The fans of the game were begging Ron to release the game as an open source project. (as feature requests and bug fixes were very slow in coming with only Ron working on the code)

So new hosting was found and the game was released as an open source project (originally under the artistic license and later under the GPL).

emuecobbei stands for "Eastern Michigan University Black Board Equipment Inventory" is an equipment inventory application that is intended to be used on a campus that has deployed the blackboard.com technology.
Main features:
- sigs (aka "categories") - links, news, posts to the forums, etc are assigned to a sig so the content of the site is organized, similar to the way yahoo started.
- rss feed aggregator - this module is actually two parts: one is a script written in python which gets urls from the database and downloads rss-based content from a cronjob. the 2nd part displays this content on a web page.
- glossary (aka "aolbonics" or "urban dictionary")
- forums (posts and responses)
- news (with comments)
- poll (voting booth)
- link (database of html anchors)
- gfile (old-school bbs term for "general file" aka "text files")
- "bbcode" rendering
- permissions (boolean values assigned to each member)
- authentication (login and password)
- user preferences (for example, the number of items to display per page)
- template-based content, meaning the administrator does not need to know a great deal about php to make content changes to the site.
- applications which build upon the bbsengine functionality:
- workflow - project management tool with fields similar to those described in RFC1297
- emuecobbei - an equipment inventory application
- tunebox - a media management application
- cit - contact information tracker

Dark Lands project is an ANSI based RPG game.
Dark Lands is a multiplayer RPG made fully with ANSI graphics. The source code is in Pascal. Currently, this game has probably no point except exploring the areas and killing monsters. It can be used as a BBS door game.
Main features:
- Door.sys, doorfile.sr and chain.txt support
- up to 115200 bps speed and up to 99 comports
- Easy setup and installation
- Local mode play
- 12 major races and over 60 subraces, including Humans, Dragons, Elf, Undead and Lycanthropes.
- 9 character alignement combinaison are possible
- 12 god to chose from, and player can be atheist
- over 100 different rooms
- over 15 monsters
- over 200 racial skills and 13 racial disadvantaged (most are still not implemented)
- Require a Fossil driver to work
- Online help system
- Players can build their own cities, raise armies and manage it
- And, best of all, this is emailware, just complete the form in the email section and youll receive your registration key at no charge at all.
Enhancements:
- BBS independant operation (optionnal)
- Internal login system
- Max time on
- Daemon operation DPMI + Linux are now functionnal ports.
- Faster Disk i/o
- Sysop can disable the sysop keys in the setup. (security)

ZhuaShuShell project is a set of bash shell scripts to crawl online e-books (in HTML format) from certain Chinese e-book sites and save the data that is formatted as a single text book to your local machine.
Enhancements:
- A new BBS board that store some stories about ghosts is supported.