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 February 28th 2026:
| Z1DAILY.Z59 | 02-28-2026 | 43k | Fidonet Daily Nodelist (Z1/ZIP) for day 059 |
| NODELIST.Z58 | 02-27-2026 | 43k | Fidonet Nodelist (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 058 |
| NODEDIFF.Z58 | 02-27-2026 | 2k | Fidonet Nodediff (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 058 |
| Z1DBINKD.ZIP | 02-28-2026 | 10k | Fidonet Daily Zone 1 BinkD-specific list |
| Z1BONE.NA | 02-27-2026 | 16k | Fidonet Zone 1 Backbone on Darkrealms |
| Z1USENET.ZIP | 02-28-2026 | 539k | Usenet traffic on Darkrealms |
| DB4S.ZIP | 12-20-2025 | 2687k | D'Bridge Standard Edition |
| DB4G.ZIP | 12-20-2025 | 2687k | D'Bridge GoldBase Edition |
| ALLFILES.ZIP | 02-27-2026 | 8452k | List of files on Darkrealms |
| 1:1/0 | Today | Yesterday | This week | This month | This year |
| Connections/In | 1,338 | 1,358 | 7,450 | 33,493 | 74,148 |
| Mail sessions | 1,112 | 987 | 5,061 | 22,629 | 49,119 |
| BBS calls | 12 | 7 | 70 | 333 | 755 |
| GATEWAY calls | 4 | 1 | 15 | 101 | 194 |
| Aborted calls | 210 | 363 | 2,304 | 10,430 | 24,080 |
| Connections/Out | 5,813 | 6,232 | 28,075 | 109,565 | 252,631 |
| Connections made | 5,813 | 6,232 | 28,075 | 109,565 | 252,631 |
| Failed connects | 21 | 33 | 201 | 1,658 | 9,828 |
| Data sent (kb) | 127,092 | 65,408 | 471,073 | 11,042,993 | 17,181,559 |
| Data received (kb) | 4,138 | 2,720 | 16,631 | 110,327 | 259,757 |
| NETmail unpacked | 5 | 4 | 48 | 104 | 192 |
| ECHOmail messages | 10,576 | 434 | 49,528 | 2,069,527 | 2,527,654 |
| Duplicate messages | 10,905 | 1,167 | 93,611 | 5,736,252 | 11,368,588 |
| ECHOmail forwarded | 21,966 | 10,038 | 96,107 | 3,566,297 | 5,454,209 |
| 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