Frank notified me the other day that DS-Map.net was down. I went to check it out and for those of you who aren't aware, there was a huge falling out amongst the admins of that forum. Doesn't surprise me as the Jackal guys were CONSTANTLY getting in trouble on other DSM and tuning forums. Most of the guys associated with DS-Map had major attitude problems and had a complete lack of maturity. If you could get past that, they had a VERY helpful community (they gave me live chat support to get my car running when I was having issues with a unique MAP sensor and 2.3L displacement). That being said, I loved the support but didn't like being associated with them. As of now the Jackal project seems essentially dead, though there are opposing views on the matter. Everyone who paid them for logger cables is pretty much screwed unless they contact Hakcenter to get their money back. While I was a fan of the fact that Jackal brought speed density to DSM owners for FREE, it was a doomed project because of mismanagement and really, really, REALLY bad attitudes.
So, what now? Some of the DS-Map guys have started a website called DSMECU.com which compiles a lot of the info from the DSM ECU yahoo group which has been around for ages. DSMECU.com will not host Jackal for download since Jackal belongs to Hakcenter, but a lot of the people there know jackal and can give you support. It seems as though the trend there is everybody is going back to TunerPro which is the tuning software I used with my Ostrich and a MAF before going to Jackal for speed density. What I didn't know is that there has been a lot of development of the speed density coding within TunerPro, *and* TunerPro finally has the capability to log now that it supports the 1g DSMs funky baud rate!!!
Oh, did I mention the TunerPro logger includes map tracing!? 
All in all, I'm extremely happy to be making the move back to TunerPro. Jackal was cool to introduce speed density to our crowd, but the java based GUI was horrible to navigate and just a pain in the ass to use. Not to mention the logger would only do couple of samples a second which is really slow. Again, I *do* appreciate everything Hakcenter did to help the community, but it really wasn't convenient to use when compared to other free solutions like TunerPro.
