Borderline BBS



Operating on Color 64 v7.37
Running on a Commodore 64 with one 1581 and seven 1571's
Supporting speeds of 300/1200/2400 baud.
Message bases, file transfers, online games, and more!
The only Commodore-run dial-up BBS currently in operation anywhere in the world!

+1 (951)242-3593

Borderline BBS is best viewed on a real Commodore computer with a terminal program that supports Commodore Graphics (aka PETSCII). Alternatively, the C64 Color Terminal Emulator by Greg Pfountz is an excellent program for MS-DOS that emulates a real Commodore Graphic terminal program. However, not all modems are supported with this program. External modems work best; most "WinModems" will not work. Some have had success running this from a DOS window from within Windows. If all else fails, just call using any ASCII-capable terminal program.

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Jeff Ledger has written an excellent document entitled Putting Your Commodore Online. This document explains, in detail, how to connect your Commodore computer to a PC, enabling you to call the Telnet-accessable BBS's with your Commodore! To download a PDF of this document, click here.

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To view the latest edition of the Commodore 64/128 BBS List in ASCII text format, click here. To view the list in PETSCII text format, click here.

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To go to my personal website, which contains several useful documents, manuals, and files for Commodore computers, click here.

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Nick Smith, the author of All American BBS, has authorized me to release his software to the Public Domain on his behalf. The following are the final releases of AA BBS for the C64 and C128, as well as the source code for each, in zipped d64 format:

All American BBS v11.6b

All American BBS v11.6b Source Code

All American BBS 128 v12.5c

All American BBS 128 v12.5c Source Code

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I have been unsuccessful at tracking down Bill Jackson, the author of Ivory BBS. However, I was a registered owner of Ivory BBS software, and I have what I believe was the final official release of Ivory. It includes complete documentation. So in the interest of making this version publically available, instead of the cracked version with no docs that is floating around on other sites, you can download a d64 of it here:

Ivory BBS v3.3

If anyone has any contact info for Bill Jackson, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me know. That way, I can hopefully get his official permission to release this.

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Eric Green, one of the co-authors of ICE BBS, has licensed ICE BBS v1.1 under the GNU General Public License (GPL). This is effectively the same as releasing it to the Public Domain; it just means that you can't put your own copyright on it, basically. I scanned in all 222 pages of the original printed manual. Now, the manual and d64 disk images of both sides of the original disk are available for download here:

ICE BBS v1.1

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Greg Pfountz, the original author of Color 64 BBS software, has authorized the release of the final version that he wrote of Color 64 (v7.37) to the Public Domain. A zip file containing all six disk sides in d64 format is available for download here:

Color 64 v7.37

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More will be added to this website as time permits.

For questions regarding this website, Cottonwood BBS, Cottonwood II, or Borderline BBS, write to the SysOp, Andrew Wiskow (aka Balzabaar), at wiskow_at_gmail.com.

(Replace "_at_" in the e-mail address with "@")

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Last updated on 3 May 2008.

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