# C*Base

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{{About|the C64 software|similarly named topics|C Base (disambiguation){{!}}C Base}}
'''C*Base''' is a popular [bulletin board system](/source/bulletin_board_system) software for the [Commodore 64](/source/Commodore_64).

==History==

C*Base was originally programmed by [Gunther Birznieks](/source/Gunther_Birznieks) of [Bethesda, Maryland](/source/Bethesda%2C_Maryland).  It was written in [Commodore BASIC](/source/Commodore_BASIC) 2.0, with some speed-critical routines hand-coded in [6502](/source/MOS_Technology_6502) [machine language](/source/machine_language); the BASIC portion was [compiled](/source/compiler) with the [Blitz!](/source/Blitz!) compiler.  Birznieks cites [CMBBS](/source/CMBBS), [Color64](/source/Bulletin_board_system), and C-Net as his influences.

After Birznieks stopped working with Commodore computers some time after the release of C*Base 3.1, he transferred control of the program to Jerome P. Yoner living in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada at the time.  Copyright and maintenance of C*Base were later entrusted to David Weinehall of [Tavelsjö](/source/Tavelsj%C3%B6), [Sweden](/source/Sweden), who rereleased the project under the [GNU GPL-2.0-or-later](/source/GNU_General_Public_License).

{{As of|2025}}, the current version is 3.3.7.

==Features==

C*Base proved popular for a number of reasons, not least of which was its almost limitless configurability and its support for a wide range of standard and third-party peripherals.

===Hardware===
A [Commodore 64](/source/Commodore_64) (or [Commodore 128](/source/Commodore_128) in 64 mode) is required to run C*Base.  All [CBM](/source/Commodore_International) and [CMD](/source/Creative_Micro_Designs) floppy and hard drives are supported, as well as the [Lt. Kernal](/source/Lt._Kernal) hard drive.  [Modem](/source/Modem) baud rates up to 2400 are supported through the user port, and up to 9600 through the cartridge port.  The program is fully compatible with [CPU](/source/Central_processing_unit) and disk accelerators such as [TurboMaster](/source/TurboMaster) and [JiffyDOS](/source/JiffyDOS).

===Communication===
The program interoperates well with both Commodore and non-Commodore terminal programs; it supports [ASCII](/source/ASCII), [ANSI](/source/American_National_Standards_Institute), and [PETSCII](/source/PETSCII) output in 40 or 80 columns.  [Punter](/source/Punter_(protocol)) and [XMODEM](/source/XMODEM) protocols are used for file transfers.

In version 3.1, full networking support for message bases was introduced, making C*Base one of the only Commodore bulletin boards capable of networking.

==External links==

{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}
*[http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/cbase/ C*Base official web page]
*[http://www.zimmers.net/bbs/cbbbs.html Review of C*Base by Bo Zimmerman]
{{No footnotes|date=February 2008}}

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Category:Bulletin board system software
Category:Commodore 64 software

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