NiKom BBS was the BBS where NiKom was developed and where support was given to other sysops with a BBS running NiKom. It was obviously also the first ever BBS to run NiKom. It opened for business on Feb 4th 1991 and was shut down on Jan 1st 1997. Back then a memorial web site was created to remember its six years online. (In Swedish only..)

On Oct 25th 2015 NiKom BBS rose from the dead and came back online. This time running in an Amiga emulator and only available over the Internet. To login telnet to bbs.nikom.org, port 2323. On many systems this can be done by opening a terminal and give the command

You can also use ssh with the username "bbs" and password "bbs". Alternatively a dedicated terminal program such as Syncterm or ZoC can be used. This will also allow you to do file transfers using ZModem.

Other options that are not as BBS oriented (e.g. no ZModem support) is PuTTY for Windows and iTerm 2 for Mac OS X.

There are a couple of things to keep in mind.

• The terminal should support ANSI escape sequences. The standard Windows terminal does not do this.

• NiKom as of v2.3.0 supports UTF-8 as character encoding, which is used by most terminals today. NiKom, being an Amiga program from the 90s, did not support this in earlier versions. If you should come across an earlier version of NiKom the following could be good to know.

  NiKom does support a couple of 8-bit character encodings and the one you probably want to use is ISO-8859-1 (aka ISO Latin 1). In many Linux distributions there is a command called luit that can help with this. Running

  > luit -encoding ISO-8859-1 telnet bbs.nikom.org 2323 > luit -encoding ISO-8859-1 ssh bbs@bbs.nikom.org
  will provide conversion to ISO-8859-1 from a terminal using UTF-8.

  Both iTerm 2 and PuTTY have options to use a different character encoding.

Also check out this short tutorial on how NiKom works.