Mystic BBS

Mystic BBS is a <a href="/facts/Bulletin_board_system/22d9c9s2">bulletin board system</a> <a href="/facts/Computer_program/e38jH9N9">software program</a> that began in 1995 and was first released to the public in December 1997 for MS-DOS. It has been ported to <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a>, <a href="/facts/OS%2f2/uVBl6ItP">OS/2</a>, <a href="/facts/OS_X/Y93vVpTm">OS X</a>, and <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> (Intel and ARM based systems such as the <a href="/facts/Raspberry_Pi/Ie6Lx9n5">Raspberry Pi</a>). Mystic was designed to be a spiritual successor to the <a href="/facts/Renegade_(BBS)/FkRLUY9m">Renegade (BBS)</a> and <a href="/facts/Telegard/tbNptUuM">Telegard</a> bulletin board systems.
Some of the more notable capabilities of Mystic BBS include:

<ul><li>Integrated Telnet, SSH, RLogin, FTP, BinkP, HTTP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP servers with IPv4 + IPv6 support</li>
<li>Full 5D compliant <a href="/facts/FidoNet/dM4jyojM">FidoNet</a> BSO mailer and tosser, including BINKP & FTP mailers</li>
<li>Built in AreaFix and FileFix functionality and full fileecho support</li>
<li>Integrated QWK and QWKE networking via FTP</li>
<li>Integrated text and ANSI editors, message editing with on-the-fly spell checking and word suggestions</li>
<li>Proprietary <a href="/facts/Scripting_programming_language/8pF4ajBL">scripting language</a> called Mystic Programming Language (MPL)</li>
<li>Embedded PYTHON 2.x and 3.x programming languages</li>
<li>DOS CP437 and UTF8 character translations, terminal sizes up to 160x60</li>
<li>Dynamic menus including menu editor, and fully customizable <a href="/facts/Shell_prompt/R9JpGmXQ">prompts</a></li>
<li>Multiple user-selectable <a href="/facts/Theme_(computer)/N08U51pq">themes</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/BBS_door/jRBjxT6h">DOOR32</a> support in addition to various DOS-type door formats</li>
<li>A fully featured ACS (access control system) and MCI display codes</li>
<li>Modern security features such as TLS v1.2+, 512-bit PBKDF2 password storage, and AES-256 encrypted Netmail</li>
<li>Highly integrated with ANSI graphics including full screen editor, lightbar menus, lightbar file listings and message reading</li>
<li>Advanced, <a href="/facts/Feature-rich/9JRKJJxa">feature-rich</a> JAM message base system with QWK/QWKE offline mail</li>
<li>Multiple platform distributions available including Windows, OS X, Linux and ARM Linux (Raspberry Pi, ODROID, etc.)</li></ul>
A more complete list of capabilities can be found at <a href="http://www.mysticbbs.com/features.html">http://www.mysticbbs.com/features.html</a>
Attracted to the flexibility and potential that the scripting language provides, a number groups, such as <a href="/facts/ACiD_Productions/H7hsuAma">ACiDic BBS modding</a>, Cyberia, Demonic, DoRE, Vanguard, wOE!mODDING and Wicked formed for the sole purpose of writing BBS <a href="/facts/Modding/kAmIAcuP">mods</a> for <a href="/facts/SysOp/r9GAlm3y">SysOps</a> who run Mystic.

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Mystic BBS