Darkrealms is one of the last remaining bulletin boards running the MS-DOS Renegade software, online since 1994.
It is the Fidonet Zone 1 Hub with massive archives of Echomail and hard-to-find vintage computer files.
Connect here or Telnet to bbs.darkrealms.ca with a client such as SyncTerm... or by dialup modem: +1-647-847-2083
Amusing files & stats for Saturday January 10th 2026, day 10:
| Z1DAILY.Z10 | Fidonet Daily Nodelist (Z1/ZIP) for day 010 |
| NODELIST.Z09 | Fidonet Nodelist (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 009 |
| NODEDIFF.Z09 | Fidonet Nodediff (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 009 |
| Z1DBINKD.ZIP | Fidonet Daily Zone 1 BinkD-specific list |
| Z1BONE.NA | Fidonet Zone 1 Backbone on Darkrealms |
| Z1USENET.ZIP | Usenet traffic on Darkrealms |
| DB4S.ZIP | D'Bridge Standard Edition |
| DB4G.ZIP | D'Bridge Goldbase Edition |
| 1:1/0 | Today | Yesterday | This week | This month | This year |
| Connections/In | 1,577 | 956 | 6,707 | 10,969 | 10,969 |
| Mail sessions | 982 | 662 | 4,458 | 7,680 | 7,680 |
| BBS calls | 15 | 12 | 55 | 85 | 85 |
| GATEWAY calls | 3 | 10 | 32 | 40 | 40 |
| Aborted calls | 577 | 272 | 2,162 | 3,164 | 3,164 |
| Connections/Out | 5,218 | 3,911 | 22,828 | 37,196 | 37,196 |
| Connections made | 5,218 | 3,911 | 22,828 | 37,196 | 37,196 |
| Failed connects | 289 | 577 | 2,363 | 2,868 | 2,868 |
| Data sent (kb) | 710,729 | 1179,863 | 2,139,323 | 2,516,133 | 2,516,133 |
| Data received (kb) | 2,553 | 2,146 | 22,100 | 38,673 | 38,673 |
| NETmail unpacked | 4 | 10 | 13 | 13 | |
| ECHOmail messages | 64,730 | 196,743 | 272,756 | 277,907 | 277,907 |
| Duplicate messages | 76,215 | 289,738 | 963,026 | 1,552,408 | 1,552,408 |
| ECHOmail forwarded | 317,021 | 565,924 | 937,105 | 982,197 | 982,197 |
| Region | Area |
| 10 | South west (CA, NV) |
| 11 | Mid west (AZ, NM, UT, WY, CO, IL, IA, KS, MO, NE, OH, IN, KY) |
| 12 | Eastern Canada (MB, NU, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, NL) |
| 13 | Northeast (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA, VA, WV) |
| 16 | Northeast (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) |
| 17 | North west / Western Canada (AB, AK, BC, ID, MT, OR, NWT, SK, WA, YT) |
| 18 | South east (AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC, TN, PR, DO) |
| 19 | South (TX, AR, OK, LA) |
Region 14 and 15 were merged into 11.
To be Nodelisted in Zone 1 you agree to Policy 4 and you are required to demonstrate a system that can exchange Netmail.
Grab the latest Nodelist or Dailylist, setup your software correctly, then send a Netmail to your Region or Network Co-ordinator.
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca