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 Thursday November 6th 2025, day 310:
| Z1DAILY.Z10 | Fidonet Daily Nodelist (Z1/ZIP) day 310 |
| NODELIST.Z04 | Fidonet Nodelist (Z1/Fri/ZIP) day 304 |
| NODEDIFF.Z04 | Fidonet Nodediff (Z1/Fri/ZIP) day 304 |
| Z1BONE.NA | Echomail Backbone available on Darkrealms |
| 1:1/0 | Today | Yesterday | This week | This month | This year |
| Connections/In | 1,231 | 1,360 | 4,264 | 5,853 | 102,559 |
| Mail sessions | 750 | 881 | 2,767 | 3,921 | 60,896 |
| BBS calls | 10 | 28 | 60 | 79 | 1,172 |
| GATEWAY calls | 2 | 5 | 17 | 18 | 362 |
| Aborted calls | 469 | 446 | 1,420 | 1,835 | 40,129 |
| Connections/Out | 4,111 | 6,392 | 16,851 | 21,511 | 394,008 |
| Connections made | 4,111 | 6,392 | 16,851 | 21,511 | 394,008 |
| Failed connects | 32 | 61 | 160 | 203 | 5,896 |
| Data sent (kb) | 165,898 | 46,076 | 534,094 | 727,945 | 16,708,697 |
| Data received (kb) | 1,932 | 7,276 | 11,829 | 14,978 | 306,044 |
| NETmail unpacked | 2 | 4 | 11 | 18 | 361 |
| ECHOmail messages | 6,548 | 3,067 | 49,062 | 49,667 | 1,371,080 |
| Duplicate messages | 3,748 | 1,667 | 41,832 | 42,998 | 3,142,706 |
| ECHOmail forwarded | 21,083 | 16,050 | 97,293 | 112,554 | 3,056,522 |
Zone 1 has less than a handful of active systems, occasional banter still happening.
| 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.
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