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Headlines from X-bit BBS News Feed, a feed about BBSes, BBS software, door games and the scene. The list is rebuilt once a day.

  • On this day in Tech History: IBM's deal with the Devil

    2026-11-08

    November 6, 1980 - IBM and Microsoft formally sign an contract whereby Microsoft will create an operating system for the in-development IBM PC.

  • New door game: Daily Gems

    2026-11-06

    Six colors, three gems per column and one identical challenge for every caller each day. Line up matching gems, unleash cascading chains, and compete for daily records across your BBS or an entire inter-BBS league. For more info and to download (linux/win/pi) visit: [https://bbswordle.com/dailygems/]

  • PIG - Oink!

    2026-11-02

    Daily Pig: a free ANSI BBS door with three turns, one game each day, sealed scores, streaks and Inter-BBS leagues. Download for Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi.

  • The Telnet BBS Guide - 29 years!

    2026-11-01

    Today marks the 29th anniversary of the Telnet BBS Guide - Thank you for all you've done for the BBS community :)

  • Sysops Finest: a forum made by sysops

    2026-10-30

    Sysops Finest, a forum made by sysops, for sysops and anyone who still gets a kick out of a modem handshake. It began as a fully bilingual - English -German forum, and is looking for even more people from the U.S. and across the globe were to join. 18 different languages ​​are installed in the forum for the basic functions. Sysops Finest forum offers FidoNet, a living BBS directory, Door games, Chat options like MRC - IRC - Discord and more. No adds! Just pure retro. Access the following for more info and to join up: [https://www.sysops-finest.org/forum/]

  • It's a Icy week! Icy Term 0.9.1 is out.

    2026-10-30

    Icy Term is a BBS terminal for Windows, macOS and Linux, with support for ANSI art and old-school graphics like RIP and SkyPix. This update adds native Kermit file transfers, improves ANSI music playback, fixes several graphics issues, and gets rid of that extra console window on Windows.

  • Icy Draw 0.6.1 released

    2026-10-28

    A full featured editor for ansi/fonts/rip/igs and many other formats based on the icy engine used in Icy Term and all the programmers tool suites. Supports almost all supported formats. This release adds UTF-8 art support and a dedicated Move Layer tool, along with a bunch of fixes. Owner has put together a short video showing some of what you can do with it: ANSI art, TheDraw fonts, PETSCII, RIP graphics and more. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Fwe0SBAxE] Would you like to know more? [https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases

  • EleBBS-Go port

    2026-10-28

    EleBBS has been ported to Go. Highlights of this project is enhanced security for SSH and support for telnetS, wss, nttpS, ftpS, smtpS and pop3S! For more info and to download your copy visit: [https://github.com/martykazmaier/EleBBS-Go]

  • ENiGMA 1/2 0.6.0-beta

    2026-10-25

    ENiGMA 1/2 0.6.0-beta can run Amiga BBS door games natively, with no external emulator and no Amiga hardware. A small Amiga emulator vAmiga Core, compiled to WebAssembly is embedded in the BBS itself. Each caller who enters an Amiga door gets their own emulated Amiga, booted from a cached snapshot in well under a second. For more info visit: [https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs]

  • New Door: Daily Yacht! (Yahtzee)

    2026-10-22

    Another fine game by Alex (maker of BBS Wordle). Five dice - Three rolls - Thirteen boxes and one game a day. A classic scorecard challenge with just enough strategy to make every roll count. Compete for the daily crown, monthly championships, longest streaks, and inter-BBS bragging rights. For more info and to download visit: [https://bbswordle.com/dailyyacht/]

  • YouTube: The Serial Port - The man behind an infamous BBS door

    2026-10-20

    Another great BBS focused YouTube video from The Serial Port. The man behind an infamous BBS door - Dennis Maiden of PAROLE Software.

  • ATA BBS 0.1.67 Alpha - Released

    2026-10-20

    Install a real 1980s and 1990s DOS bulletin board, the actual DOS software and not a lookalike, on the same shared hosting you already run WordPress on. Your callers reach it in a web browser, no Telnet and no terminal program, and it runs as many nodes at once as your host can carry. One click for a supported board, or import the one you already have. No VPS, no open ports, nothing left running at home.

  • MajorMUD Source Code - reverse engineered

    2026-10-18

    Claude was able to reverse engineer and provide C source code for MajorMUD 1.11p (DOS/WG2) that compiles 1:1 (matching SHA hash) with the original DLL. So is this the _original_ source code? No. Does it compile and functionally operate the exact same as the original? Yes. For more info and to download source visit: [https://www.mudinfo.net/viewtopic.php?p=8660]

  • New Door Game: Daily Blocks!

    2026-10-12

    One board. One attempt. And now, one competition across multiple BBSes. Join an inter-BBS league to face the exact same daily pieces as players on other boards, battle over league-wide records, and put your entire BBS on the leaderboard. Super easy to setup and go head to head with other BBS' around the world.

  • BBS Firewall v1.5 released

    2026-10-12

    BBSFirewall v1.5.0: open-source firewall for telnet/SSH BBSes, now with ufw kernel-level blocking, log search, and a security hardening. BBSFirewall is a Node.js proxy that sits in front of a telnet/SSH BBS and filters connections before they reach it.

  • NewWave software update

    2026-10-11

    Many NewWave software products have been updated and/or released. For a full overview of whats news visit: [https://tinyurl.com/newwave-news]

  • Icy Tools Update

    2026-10-11

    All Icy Tools updated: IcyTerm - IcyView - IcyDraw - IcyMail (new). For a full list of whats new visit: [https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/1x2griw/icy_tools_update/]

  • ANetDRAW - full ANSI-ASCII art editor

    2026-10-02

    ANetSoftware strikes again! ANetDRAW is a full ANSI/ASCII art editor in the spirit of TheDraw, ACiDDraw, Moebius and PabloDraw. Callers draw right inside your BBS, with the mouse or the keyboard, and it runs just as well stand-alone on Windows, Linux and the Raspberry Pi, with no BBS at all.

  • BotGate v2.4 released - abuseipdb.can feed added

    2026-09-30

    A TCP-level bot gate for BBS systems. BotGate sits in front of your BBS's real telnet port and requires each caller to press ESC and/or * twice within a configurable timeout before your actual BBS software ever sees the connection. Callers who don't respond, or who are obviously automated rather than human are disconnected without ever reaching the BBS. Can be used for more than one BBS, Game Server, TWGS, SQGS, etc. Whats New: Added abuseipdb.can file. Automatic updates from [https://www.abuseipdb.com] most reported IP addresses. Very effective! Refreshes in the background every 12 hours by default, with cached protection and logged update results. For more info and to download visit: [https://github.com/xbit44/botgate]

  • Breaking!! The NES Door - NES games over sixel for the BBS

    2026-09-30

    From the maker of BBS Wordle - The NES Door! Play NES games like Mario, Tetris, Zelda, Golf, etc with sound on the BBS! Picture drawn with sixel graphics, real key-down/key-up input and the game's own sound in SyncTERM, and optional 2-player games between two nodes. Would you like to know more? [https://github.com/AlexCorris/nesdoor] The NES Door - Tetris ROM example: [https://x-bit.org/box/nesdoor.mp4]