MS-DOS and Compatible
- 1BBS – Unix-style BBS software written by Teemu Harju
- 2AM-BBS – written by Neil Clarke, Chris Gorman, and Tom Vogl (2AM Associates)
- Alacrity BBS
- Allans kakburk
- Alphabox
- Alpha-KOM
- Apocolis – written by Pat Barnes and Dan Joseph, an offshoot of the original Vision.
- Auntie BBS written by Wes Meier
- BBBS
- Bytronix: ASCII & ANSI compatible BBS software written in IBM BASIC by Mike Bettua.
- CBBS – The first ever BBS software, written by Ward Christensen.
- Celerity BBS
- Citadels including DragCit, Cit86, TurboCit, Citadel+
- Computer Information Exchange (CIE)
- Concord BBS – written by Pasi Talliniemi
- DarkStar BBS – the first full multimedia BBS platform, written by Jerry Thomas Hunter and distributed from 1989 through 1995
- DeusBBS – written by Simon Giles
- DLX BBS - by Richard Gillmann (Inner Loop Software)
- Ebbs PC BBS - by Ed Parry
- EDLX BBS
- EIS-PC - by Justin Langseth
- EleBBS
- Emulex (later Emulex/2)
- Elite BBS – written by HJ van Rantwijk
- Eternity (BBS)
- Ezycom – written by Peter Davies
- FerretBBS – written by Jason Scott (www.textfiles.com)
- Fido – written by Tom Jennings (www.wps.com)
- Force! – written by Guy Smith and Jim Langley
- Forum PC – one of the most-copied BBS sources which spawned a legion of "Forum hacks"
- Fornax – written by Minh Ma (aka Briareos)
- Free Speech – a simple single-template message board
- Gap
- GBBS (Graphics BBS) – used in the Melbourne area
- Genesis PC BBS – written in Turbo Pascal 3.0 by Jim Berg and Steven (Kiriwuth) Path
- GT-Power
- Hostplus – part of the Telix suite
- H-KOM
- Hysteria BBS – tricky WWiV hack
- Illusion BBS
- Iniquity BBS
- Infusion BBS
- Impulse BBS
- Insomnia BBS
- Infinity BBS
- Insanity BBS
- Instinct BBS
- Jet BBS
- Lora BBS
- L.S.D. BBS – written by The Slavelord of The Humble Guys (THG)
- The Major BBS
- Maximus
- MBBS
- McBBS – by Derek E. McDonald
- Mystic BBS
- MikroKom
- NanoBBS
- Nexus BBS – written by George Roberts
- Nochange – by Jim Kloss
- Oblivion/2 written by Darkened Enmity
- Opus-CBCS – first written by Wynn Wagner III
- Oracomm (early) Oracomm Plus (later) – written by Guy Young
- PCBoard
- PegaSys
- PipeLine – written by Matt Stanley (Net Distortion)
- Pobble – written in New Zealand by Josh Parsons
- PowerBBS
- Powerboard BBS
- ProBoard BBS – written by Philippe Leybaert (Belgium)
- Puppy
- Pyroto Mountain
- PoweredBoard
- QuickBBS – written by Adam Hudson (With assistance by Phil Becker)
- QuiverBBS
- RBBS-PC
- RemoteAccess – written by Andrew Milner
- Renegade – written by Cott Lang
- Revelation
- RoboBOARD/FX – written by Seth Hamilton
- SDLX BBS – by Dustin Thomas, Jason Quinn
- Searchlight BBS (SLBBS)
- Shotgun BBS – written by Brent Shellenberg
- Spitfire
- STadel-PC, a PC version of the STadel variant of Citadel for the Atari ST
- SuperBBS – by Aki Antman and Risto Virkkala
- Synchronet
- TBBS
- Telegard
- TriBBS
- TPCS
- TCL
- TAG
- Tornado BBS
- UBBS
- VDLX BBS written by Collin Gohl
- Virtual Advanced, also known as VBBS
- ViSiON
- ViSiON-X – written by Ed Youssef
- ViSiON/2 "The Revision" programmed by Crimson Blade
- VorTeX BBS – written by Jason S. Clary. A protected mode multitasking BBS with a mixed ANSI and vector graphic system using an ANSI-like protocol.
- Waffle – written by Tom Dell, and supported UUCP (and Fidonet through extensions).
- Wildcat! – originally by Mustang Software
- Worldgroup – The latest version of MajorBBS, the last released by Galacticomm.
- WWIV – written by Wayne Bell, included WWIVNet and while popular on DOS platforms also had an OS/2 version.
- XBBS – written by Mark Kimes. Distributed with source code, this allowed a very customizable system. Also available for OS/2. Support was very limited ("If it breaks, you have both pieces" – M. Kimes).
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