NOTICE: Due to military obligations, I'll be away for approximately 8 months. As a result, both Cottonwood and Borderline BBSs will be offline from 5 June 2009 until late February 2010. I've managed to find an alternate location to host these web pages, so these pages will remain accessable while I'm away. Thank you everyone for your continued support, and I'll get both BBSs back up and running as soon as I can upon my return.

Welcome to the Informational Website for
Cottonwood BBS
and Borderline BBS

Located in Moreno Valley, California



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Cottonwood BBS



Operating on All American BBS 128 v12.5c
Running on a Commodore 128 with a 1581 and three 1571 disk drives.
Message bases, text files, file transfers, and 50 online games!

telnet://cottonwood.servebbs.com:6400

Cottonwood BBS is best viewed on a real Commodore computer with a terminal program that supports Commodore Graphics (aka PETSCII). Alternatively, CGTERM is an excellent program for both PC's and Mac's that emulates a real Commodore Graphic terminal program. However, the first time you call Cottonwood BBS, you need to be using an ASCII terminal program. This is because AABBS software switches to ASCII mode for the application process. So my advice for PC and Mac users is to call using a standard terminal program for your first call, then use CGTERM for all calls thereafter.

Borderline BBS



Operating on Color 64 v7.37
Running on a Commodore 64 with a CMD hard drive (80 MB)
Supporting speeds of 300/1200/2400 baud.
Message bases, file transfers, online games, and more!
The only dial-up BBS running on a Commodore 64 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.


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.


To view the latest edition of the Commodore 64/128 BBS List, click here.


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


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


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 zipped 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.


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 122 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


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

More will be added to this website as time permits.

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

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

Last updated on 23 May 2009.


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