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 Sunday January 25th 2026, day 25:
| Z1DAILY.Z25 | 43k | Fidonet Daily Nodelist (Z1/ZIP) for day 025 |
| NODELIST.Z23 | 43k | Fidonet Nodelist (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 023 |
| NODEDIFF.Z23 | 1k | Fidonet Nodediff (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 023 |
| Z1DBINKD.ZIP | 10k | Fidonet Daily Zone 1 BinkD-specific list |
| Z1BONE.NA | 15k | Fidonet Zone 1 Backbone on Darkrealms |
| Z1USENET.ZIP | 546k | Usenet traffic on Darkrealms |
| DB4S.ZIP | 2687k | D'Bridge Standard Edition |
| DB4G.ZIP | 2687k | D'Bridge GoldBase Edition |
| ALLFILES.ZIP | 9212k | List of files on Darkrealms |
| 1:1/0 | Today | Yesterday | This week | This month | This year |
| Connections/In | 1,268 | 1,417 | 8,950 | 31,796 | 31,796 |
| Mail sessions | 916 | 977 | 5,729 | 20,114 | 20,114 |
| BBS calls | 17 | 14 | 102 | 314 | 314 |
| GATEWAY calls | 1 | 2 | 12 | 78 | 78 |
| Aborted calls | 334 | 424 | 3,107 | 11,290 | 11,290 |
| Connections/Out | 5,035 | 5,743 | 31,950 | 113,485 | 113,485 |
| Connections made | 5,035 | 5,743 | 31,950 | 113,485 | 113,485 |
| Failed connects | 687 | 200 | 1,679 | 6,640 | 6,640 |
| Data sent (kb) | 71,159 | 128,317 | 676,240 | 5,508,919 | 5,508,919 |
| Data received (kb) | 2,632 | 6,561 | 34,798 | 119,363 | 119,363 |
| NETmail unpacked | 22 | 29 | 52 | 52 | |
| ECHOmail messages | 961 | 951 | 6,727 | 438,178 | 438,178 |
| Duplicate messages | 279,116 | 245,782 | 2,435,919 | 4,453,416 | 4,453,416 |
| ECHOmail forwarded | 11,197 | 11,232 | 74,039 | 1,790,947 | 1,790,947 |
| 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