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 February 22nd 2026:
| Z1DAILY.Z53 | 02-22-2026 | 43k | Fidonet Daily Nodelist (Z1/ZIP) for day 053 |
| NODELIST.Z51 | 02-20-2026 | 43k | Fidonet Nodelist (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 051 |
| NODEDIFF.Z51 | 02-20-2026 | 1k | Fidonet Nodediff (Z1/Fri/ZIP) for day 051 |
| Z1DBINKD.ZIP | 02-22-2026 | 10k | Fidonet Daily Zone 1 BinkD-specific list |
| Z1BONE.NA | 02-20-2026 | 15k | Fidonet Zone 1 Backbone on Darkrealms |
| Z1USENET.ZIP | 02-22-2026 | 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 | 02-20-2026 | 8452k | List of files on Darkrealms |
| 1:1/0 | Today | Yesterday | This week | This month | This year |
| Connections/In | 1,480 | 1,151 | 8,692 | 26,039 | 66,694 |
| Mail sessions | 800 | 711 | 5,409 | 17,564 | 44,054 |
| BBS calls | 15 | 12 | 94 | 263 | 685 |
| GATEWAY calls | 3 | 3 | 46 | 86 | 179 |
| Aborted calls | 662 | 425 | 3,143 | 8,126 | 21,776 |
| Connections/Out | 4,273 | 4,261 | 28,699 | 81,466 | 224,532 |
| Connections made | 4,273 | 4,261 | 28,699 | 81,466 | 224,532 |
| Failed connects | 15 | 26 | 212 | 1,451 | 9,621 |
| Data sent (kb) | 382,332 | 168,981 | 1,242,745 | 10,571,887 | 16,710,453 |
| Data received (kb) | 2,297 | 3,224 | 23,705 | 93,692 | 243,122 |
| NETmail unpacked | 2 | 5 | 24 | 56 | 144 |
| ECHOmail messages | 117,259 | 43,303 | 436,140 | 2,019,999 | 2,478,126 |
| Duplicate messages | 231,196 | 65,315 | 1,182,703 | 5,642,639 | 11,274,975 |
| ECHOmail forwarded | 127,439 | 46,204 | 349,342 | 3,470,190 | 5,358,102 |
| 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