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Blue Board

The fastest Commdore 64 BBS

Blue Board was developed in the summer of 1985 in Vancouver by Martin Sikes. Built in 100% Assembly Language, it's the fastest BBS software ever released for Commodore 64. We ran it for the first two years of our existence.

Martin, sadly, passed away in 2007 leaving no apparent intellectual property successor for Blue Board, which is now widely regarded as abandonware.

There is a project and website dedicated to preserving Blue Board at www.blueboardbbs.com and we hope you will visit that site and learn more about this remarkable piece of proto-social-networking history.

Perhaps most prescient of all Martin's innovations was Blue Board's "Scribbles" feature, a short-format high-volume pseudo-chatwall that no other BBS duplicated but that was largely plagiarized in early versions of Twitter years later.

While we do not have an "official" release of Blue Board to share, we can share two versions of the modified software that we used along with our departed colleage Allen Walker and his BBS, Crazy Train.

Here they are.

Hi-Q BBS Door!

First update since 1997!

Hi-Q is the BBS Door version of the classic pegboard game of the same name. Can you get a perfect score? It's harder than it looks!
Requires: a BBS capable of running 16-bit MS-DOS doors. DORINFOx.DEF, DOOR.SYS, CALLINFO.BBS, and PCBOARD.SYS supported.

Download HIQ140.ZIP

License: Creative Commons CC BY-ND 3.0. You may use and distribute this door commercially or non-commercially but you may not publish derivative works. Required attribution: THC BBS
Please note:Hi-Q's license terms have changed. The Creative Commons license applies only to Hi-Q 1.4.0 and later. Hi-Q 1.30 and prior versions remain shareware and remain governed by the licence terms set out when they were published.

Latest Release Notes • Hi-Q README doc

Yertle - the BBS Door!

Our first new BBS door since 2022!

Our 6-letter reimagining of Wordle, the logical word game that broke the internet!
Requires: a BBS capable of running 16-bit MS-DOS doors. DORINFOx.DEF, DOOR.SYS, CALLINFO.BBS, and PCBOARD.SYS supported.

Download YERTL104.ZIP

License: Creative Commons CC BY-ND 3.0. You may use and distribute this door commercially or non-commercially but you may not publish derivative works. Required attribution: THC BBS

Latest Release Notes • Yertle README doc

Myrtle - the BBS Door!

Our first new BBS door since 1996!

Our BBS Door take on Wordle, the logical word game that is breaking the internet!
Requires: a BBS capable of running 16-bit MS-DOS doors. DORINFOx.DEF, DOOR.SYS, CALLINFO.BBS, and PCBOARD.SYS supported.

Download MYRTL104.ZIP

License: Creative Commons CC BY-ND 3.0. You may use and distribute this door commercially or non-commercially but you may not publish derivative works. Required attribution: THC BBS

Latest Release Notes • Myrtle README doc

Myrtle for Commodore 64!

Our vintage take on Wordle, the logical word game that is breaking the internet!
Requires: Commodore 64 or emulator.

https://thcbbs.com/files/myrtle64.d64

License: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0. You may use and distribute this game commercially or non-commercially. Required attribution: THC BBS

Latest Release Notes

Doorgasm '98 CD-ROM

Our last CD-ROM as a BBS. This is a collection of all the BBS doors we could find as of 1998. We used to sell this for $30 but it's yours for the cost of a few hundred megs of download bandwidth now!

https://thcbbs.com/files/doorgasm.zip

File size: 556,221,549 bytes. License: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 You may use and distribute this archive commercially or non-commercially.