Introduction:

Nearly 4 years ago I took a look at one of the first versions of Game Jackal. Just under three years ago I took a second look at the newly released version 2 of the program. Now here we are ready for version 3 from the new owners SlySoft.

Game Jackal has been through a few iterations already under SlySoft, so now we felt that since they have had a little time to work on it, it was right once again to revisit this program.

History: Jacal Consulting to SlySoft:

Originally made by Jacal Consulting it was sold to SlySoft sometime in early 2007 when copyright laws in Australia where changed.

Below is a press release from CDFreaks dated 16/03/07,

The Antigua based copy protection specialist SlySoft has now acquired Game Jackal from Australian software company Jacal Consulting. All further development of Game Jackal has been taken over by SlySoft.

Giancarlo Bettini, CEO at SlySoft: "Due to new Australian copyright law, Jacal Consulting had to take down the Game Jackal website in January and SlySoft took this opportunity to complement our software portfolio. Game Jackal is a perfect addition to our range of product offerings."

"The first release of SlySoft Game Jackal will come at the end of March", SlySoft's Marketing Director, Tom Xiang, said. "We will be adding a few new features and some more languages. However, for our first release, our main focus will be the changeover to the SlySoft license system, with free lifetime updates. Old Game Jackal users can be easily upgraded to a SlySoft license, for no more than 10 USD."

Anthony Smith, Technical Director at Jacal Consulting: "We are happy that Game Jackal has found a perfect new home. SlySoft is well known for their customer satisfaction and we can be sure that our customers will be in good hands."

Company Information:

SlySoft Inc is a software company located in the capital city St. John's in Antigua and Barbuda. Its products consist of software to copy CDs and DVDs.

Products

• CloneCD (to copy optical discs in raw format;
• CloneDVD (to copy non-protected DVD movies to the hard disk; (sold by Elaborate Bytes))
• AnyDVD (to remove/disable copy-protections and user prohibited operations on DVD films, and to fix structure protections and mastering errors)
• AnyDVD HD (to remove protections, lock-outs and PUOs on High Definition DVDs, specifically HD-DVD and BluRay)
• Virtual CloneDrive (to load virtual drives and mount disc image)s
• CloneDVD mobile (to convert video DVDs to mobile devices and standard video files )
• Game Jackal (to create CD profiles so a disc isn't required when starting the game)

Conclusion

Game Jackal Overview