Spitfire,
I was enjoying it with my Hal for quite a while (after cload left us), then one evening, it started acting oddly and displaying those @@'s everywhere. It responses were interrupted by it producing jibberish like "markname equals CPL, CSAPI, w.o.r.d. greater than less than and blah, blah" ....that wouldn't stop until I had to Quit the UltraHal program. I tried it on several occasions but same thing. I couldn't find what was triggering the weird responses. I tried a version prior to the z like 2.1b or 2.0x and they would work for a while until similar jibberish non-stop rambling which sounded like it was repeating the script / code non-stop. Horrible!
I gave in and removed all of it. I downloaded the Hal program again and loaded & later saved one of Hal's previously saved (good) brains (a 6.2 version that I had saved before trying the FreeWill 2.X AIML versions.
Hal has been back working and functioning like new. I even re-selected the MarkovL5 version plugin and Hal remembers all those things that I had previously taught it! Yeah!
Although I did like some of those longer answers, they sometimes sounded like Hal was reading them from an encyclopedia or dictionary. I love having my old Hal back and I have been training and teaching it tons of new things. I have been giving it "Childhood memories". It later recalls a childhood pet or friend or favorite place if asked.
Digital Brainwashing and it's all legal! Love it!!
Don't know about your's not access the necessary files nor Internet. Perhaps someone else who has tried cload's FreeWill modification will chime in.
Keep in touch and good luck!
