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 January 8th 2026, day 8:
| Z1DAILY.Z08 | Fidonet Daily Nodelist (Z1/ZIP) for day 008 |
| NODELIST.Z02 | Fidonet Nodelist (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 002 |
| NODEDIFF.Z02 | Fidonet Nodediff (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 002 |
| 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 | 1,064 | 674 | 4,174 | 8,436 | 8,436 |
| Mail sessions | 700 | 484 | 2,814 | 6,036 | 6,036 |
| BBS calls | 9 | 1 | 28 | 58 | 58 |
| GATEWAY calls | 14 | 1 | 19 | 27 | 27 |
| Aborted calls | 341 | 188 | 1,313 | 2,315 | 2,315 |
| Connections/Out | 2,841 | 1,611 | 13,699 | 28,067 | 28,067 |
| Connections made | 2,841 | 1,611 | 13,699 | 28,067 | 28,067 |
| Failed connects | 620 | 511 | 1,497 | 2,002 | 2,002 |
| Data sent (kb) | 107,934 | 19,080 | 248,731 | 625,541 | 625,541 |
| Data received (kb) | 9,783 | 2,025 | 17,401 | 33,974 | 33,974 |
| NETmail unpacked | 5 | 6 | 9 | 9 | |
| ECHOmail messages | 7,625 | 260 | 11,283 | 16,434 | 16,434 |
| Duplicate messages | 421,841 | 610 | 597,073 | 1,186,455 | 1,186,455 |
| ECHOmail forwarded | 23,746 | 5,785 | 54,160 | 99,252 | 99,252 |
| 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