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 Monday January 12th 2026, day 12:
| Z1DAILY.Z12 | Fidonet Daily Nodelist (Z1/ZIP) for day 012 |
| 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 | 1,620 | 1,405 | 1,620 | 13,994 | 13,994 |
| Mail sessions | 889 | 882 | 889 | 9,451 | 9,451 |
| BBS calls | 20 | 9 | 20 | 114 | 114 |
| GATEWAY calls | 7 | 8 | 7 | 55 | 55 |
| Aborted calls | 704 | 506 | 704 | 4,374 | 4,374 |
| Connections/Out | 6,136 | 3,646 | 6,136 | 46,978 | 46,978 |
| Connections made | 6,136 | 3,646 | 6,136 | 46,978 | 46,978 |
| Failed connects | 146 | 200 | 146 | 3,214 | 3,214 |
| Data sent (kb) | 88,639 | 1448,871 | 88,639 | 4,053,643 | 4,053,643 |
| Data received (kb) | 3,090 | 3,142 | 3,090 | 44,905 | 44,905 |
| NETmail unpacked | 3 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 20 |
| ECHOmail messages | 2,690 | 128,874 | 2,690 | 409,471 | 409,471 |
| Duplicate messages | 1,663 | 376,478 | 1,663 | 1,930,549 | 1,930,549 |
| ECHOmail forwarded | 14,194 | 632,390 | 14,194 | 1,628,781 | 1,628,781 |
| 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