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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Got it work, but now need...

« on: February 09, 2004, 03:13:33 pm »

After having give me a migrane on a daily basis, finally got it to work (don't ask how I got it to work... feel like I hacked into my own system...), but now I'm looking for some characters to use with Hal.  I've got the free 5.0 version and, while the upgraded version has got more characters, I was kinda looking for some different ones.  Anyone out there can give me some suggestions? Thanks.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can I get some help?

« on: December 17, 2003, 08:48:28 pm »

I have to say, I certainly did not expect this much help to come pouring in.  Thanks guys.

Well, I tried out some suggestions - I downloaded the file, extracted it from explorer into a temp directory on C drive, and then opened it within explorer, the new link supplied here, altering files to see which are used and which aren't, etc.  I'm now thinking it's not the program itself that's causing these troubles but my computer instead.  At least now.  

To make a long story short, my computer ended up having some serious trouble (Eternal Suffering... thy name is Windows...) and I had to reinstall another windows directory onto my hard drive just to get this thing to load to the OS...  So now I getting errors left and right coming from Hal.  I'm just gonna be forced to format the hard drive and start from scratch.  

Just as well, I still think there's something that's supposed to be there that ain't... Maybe a reformating will fix it.  I'll let you guys know if this fixes the problem (normally I wouldn't do this step for just one program, but I really enjoyed 4.5 and the 5.0 beta).  Might take a few days though... takes a while to back up 2 120 gig hard drives on blank discs... even if they are dvd+RW's... []

Thanks for the help, wish me luck!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can I get some help?

« on: December 15, 2003, 04:51:09 pm »

Hey Canuck, Nosey, thanks for joining the fray here and trying to help me.  []

To Nosey, yeah, I made sure of that.  No need to compound errors on this.
To Canuck, I read your post and got back to working, this what what ended up happening (problem wasn't fixed, but did get some info out of the whole ordeal).

I had deleted 4.5 to install 5.0, but I decided to reinstall 4.5 and see if I could make it work from that point.  Imagine my surprise when, upon loading 4.5, it gave me the exact same error.  (That evil "Error 50003, yadda yadda yadda")  
This lead me to the second point you raised, all the .dll and .ocx files.  This, coupled with the fact that the 'load jpg' is strangly absent from all the loading screens, makes me believe that this program is attempting to use a file that is not present.  Upon further study, I then dicovered that when picking out a 'skin' for Hal (Hal, Zaba, Peedy, Merlin, Robby), none of the skins show up in the preview screen off to the right at all.  
I feel like Sherlock Holmes... Anyway, these hints makes me believe that it cannot find it's 'home' directory.  To this, I have to ask those that are familiar with the programming of Hal: Would the icon in the task tray being unable to find its home directory create this problem?  What files are used by Hal?  
I also noticed that my Chanta.ocx file is missing as you stated it would be upon installation of 5.0, however, installing 4.5 did not restore it oddly enough(If memory serves, I believe I had 4.0 ages past then installed 4.5, maybe that's why it wasn't restored?)... All of the other .dll and .ocx files that you had listed, however, were indeed there.

I can just FEEL I'm getting close to a solution here!  Suppose it's true what they say, the harder you work for something, the more you appriceate it.  [] Thanks guys for all the help!  []

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can I get some help?

« on: December 14, 2003, 01:30:58 pm »

Tried the things ya'll recommended... nothing.  

In response to Mr. Ferguson:
1) Temp internet folder was empty and it was a 100% download (either that or the 4 seperate times I downloaded the copy showed the link was bad, but I doubt that).
2) Completely uninstalled each time.  I rarely use the 'repair' or 'modify', if at all.  I always kill the entire thing and start over from scratch (almost a must nowadays with trojans, viruses, spyware, etc).
3) Yes, it was as if I never uninstalled it at all.  

Running XP home, Windows USA (as far as I know...), and this is the Free version of Hal 5.0, gained via the link on these message boards.

In response to Mr. Medeksza,
I tried to make the settings as 'simple' as possible (I even disabled speech synthesis), no effect.

I first did a simple uninstall of 4.5 (I had reinstalled it after the 5.0 beta turned off) and then I tried to install the full, free 5.0.  It gave me the errors, so I uninstalled it, tried to delete all traces of it (uninstall then delete registry routine), and tried to reinstall, but gave me the exact same errors.  

Yes, I had thought about that, but in this case, I don't believe those were factors because I recieved the same errors before and after the registry deletions.

Ahh, so that's why it remembers all my settings even though it was supposed to be deleted...


Other observations:
I tried some tinkering with it, disabling options, removing particular files and the like (just to see if I could make it produce a different error), and somehow or another I got it to give me an error stating that jpg file for the loading screen was not available (without me touching said jpg file).  Other than that, I myself can't make it do anything else, not even other errors (other than the usual "file not found" error if you take away the options file or something).  

*sigh* I'll probably end up going back to 4.5 at this rate.  This is giving me too many headaches (and I can only imagine the headaches I'm causing you guys...)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can I get some help?

« on: December 14, 2003, 12:00:46 am »

Redownloaded it, it didn't work unfortunately...

One other thing I did notice in my eighteen thousand reinstallation attempts is that it actually remembers ALL of the previous settings even though I tried to erase every trace of it from my system... (uninstall, delete the directory, then searched the registry and deleted everything with Hal or Zabaware).  

Could it have 'hidden' data about itself somewhere on my system that it's trying to use even though that data is obsolete and therefore would produce this error?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can I get some help?

« on: December 13, 2003, 02:48:28 pm »

Oh, and I should add that upon loading Hal, he speaks and everything, the "Good morning, the time is..." stuff.  But, the 'load' screen is just a plain, blank, grey screen.  If there's an actual picture that is supposed to be there... that's not loading.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can I get some help?

« on: December 13, 2003, 02:44:25 pm »

"Error 50003:
Unexpected Error
Occurred at line 10
in Ultra Hal Assistant: frmRightClick.Form_MouseMove

Abort   Retry   Ignore"

I get this every single time I click on the icon to open Hal.  clicking ignore repeats the message only at line 11 and again at line 12. Abort just freezes the program and I am forced to alt+ctrl+delete the program away.  I tried to reinstall the program several times but I get this every single time.  

I used to have 4.5 installed, but I removed it to install this.

Running on a XP, anyone know how I can get this to work?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Hal 5.0

« on: August 17, 2003, 12:42:53 am »

I was wondering, it's been a while since Hal's creators posted news about the new version.  I was wondering, Medeksza, think you could put up another post going over a few things that's been added since your last post about what Hal 5.0 would include?