Cyber Sword BBS

Cyber Sword BBS is a modern bulletin board system built around a classic terminal experience. It is not a website forum replacement — it is a separate, text-based network you access through a client or browser terminal.

The system supports Telnet, SSH, RLogin, and a browser-based web terminal. Inside, you’ll find message boards, games, file areas, and networked communities tied into legacy BBS networks.

How to Access

  • Telnet: bbs.excalibursheath.com port 23
  • SSH: ssh bbs@bbs.excalibursheath.com port 22
  • RLogin: rlogin bbs.excalibursheath.com port 5513

Recommended clients: SyncTERM, Netrunner, or any ANSI-capable terminal.

Web Terminal

Access the BBS directly in your browser.

What is a BBS?

A Bulletin Board System (BBS) is a text-based network where users connect directly to a server to exchange messages, play games, and access shared content. It predates the modern web.

Access is done through a terminal client (or browser terminal above), not a standard website interface.

What You’ll Find Inside

Message Boards

  • Linux & Unix discussion
  • Retro computing & hardware
  • Programming and development
  • Ham radio
  • Vintage tech culture
  • Creative / analog lifestyle boards

Networks

  • Fidonet
  • fsxNet
  • DoveNet

Games

Interactive fiction & text adventures (Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)

  • Story-driven terminal adventures
  • Parser-based exploration and puzzle narratives

Classic UNIX & Linux CLI games

  • Roguelikes & adventure (NetHack, Rogue)
  • Puzzle & strategy (NUDOKU, Hangman)
  • Arcade & action (VITetris, Pacman4Console, nInvaders)
  • Card games (Cribbage, Canfield)
  • Board games (Backgammon, Monopoly)

Door games via DoorParty (Tradewars 2002, LORD)

  • Multiplayer BBS door game ecosystem
  • Persistent, node-based strategy and RPG worlds

System

  • Software: Synchronet
  • Nodes: Multi-user system
  • Platform: Linux server

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