@FurryGuy, I just wanted to add. I am a long time user of Game Jackal Pro since day one. Yes, all newer games do not really use this software but for me, who is a retro gamer, I love to still setup my older games like Battle for Middle Earth I and II, Rise of the Witch King, Command & Conquer games and Red Alert games using this program so that they do not require the CD every time I play those game. It is so much easier for older games to have all of the images on the computer to play directly instead of always looking for those darn CDs. It is/was a great program and help so much!
Great tool!!!!
ciao ciao
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I have two Game Jackal Pro licenses and they are running on two different computers to play some older games without discs. So, just because newer games don't need it means we still can't play our older games? Sorry, no.What's the need? Most, if not all, current game releases don't use disc-based DRM.
Game companies are either going DRM-free or using app-based front-ends to run their DRM. Disc-free.
Disc-based releases are done so people don't have to download the installer, they don't use the disc as copy-protection.
I'd, personally, be a bit miffed if they suddenly gave out free licenses to everyone.
I'd, personally, be a bit miffed if they suddenly gave out free licenses to everyone.
I merely offered my own personal view. In the grand scheme of things my opinion means little since I never worked for Slysoft or RedFox.I do understand, you paid hard-earned money for a program and it would not feel fair to now give that program away to everyone. I also paid a great deal of money for my old disc based games and for years happily played them on my computers with disc drives. I never heard of Game Jackal (and never had a need for it till now), but the trend is now to remove drives from computers, and to remove games (at the sole discretion of the distributor). What do you do as a gamer who loves a particular game (or just discovered it recently) and can't buy it on Steam/GOG (like MLB 2k12) and the day comes when they stop selling external DVD drives (no profit, no one sells disc based games anymore). Those few games that you cannot find any other way but in some dudes garage sale would be lost forever. I have the disc (MLB 2K12), a portable pocket PC (GPD Win - as big as a cell phone), and the ONLY program that made a workable image/profile was Game Jackal. I certainly WISH I had discovered this awesome program back when you did, but I can't change the fact that I didn't. All I can do at this point is to make an appeal to bring the program back (if possible) or to make it free (again, if possible). Thank you.
I was being facetious about the Lifetime Updates and Official Link. I was pointing out the selfishness, silliness and counterproductive nature of claiming it unfair to make the final version of GameJackal free at this point.But it's not a Redfox product, so they probably don't have the rights to it like they were granted for the other software., hence no official download links, and no real interest in doing anything with it. I suspect the the links you see are from when they moved the Website over to Redfox and just updated the links.
As to the lifetime updates, you did get them for the lifetime of the product. Slysoft shut down and so did any further development