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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can't Install Ultra Hal

« on: March 08, 2002, 01:25:19 pm »

I have been using Ultra Hal for about a month but the day befor yesterday I had to reinstall Windows 2000 Pro on my system because of an unrelated problem with the operating system.  I performed an upgrade type install that reinstalls the operating system over the top of the existing install and preserves all (in theory) settings and installed components.  However, after the install was complete Ultra Hal would no longer work.  When I restart my computer I get the message that Hal was not shut down correctly and that I need to configure it again.  I enter the configuration screen, fill out everything all with no problems.  However, when I try to start Hal, the program crashes and I get a message that Hal did something illegal and that a log is being generated.  I have tried the repair option and have uninstalled and reinstalled Hal but I still get the same error.  I like Hal and want to use this program but I cannot get it to start now.  Any suggestions?

Mark Laris
mjlaris@retaqs.com

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Digital DNA

« on: February 25, 2002, 03:25:09 am »

Has any thought been given to allowing the use of Digital DNA to give HAL a distinct personality?  This would be very interesting.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Loading Current Events into Hal

« on: February 25, 2002, 03:22:59 am »

Is there any thought to creating a way to easily load current events into HAL?  I'm thinking a menu item when you right click on Hal that says "Update Current Events" then the current events are automativaly downloaded from the Internet and loaded into Hal.  This would make conservations more interesting.

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / The Shared Learned Database

« on: February 12, 2002, 12:21:10 am »

When I open the Brain editor, I see the scripts for controlling Hal's functions and his databases.  One of these databases is the shared learned database.  I have added several lines to this database but I was under the impression that Hal was supposed to learn himself and that this learning would be accomplished by Hal making his own entries into the shared learned database.  However, Hal has yet to make any of his own entries in this database.  I have spent time explaining to Hal the names of my family members (i.e. I would same "My wife's name is Irina" or "My son's name is Victor").  I am a little confused now because Hal knows my son's name (there is no entry for this in the shared learned database) but Hal could not remember my wife's name until I manually entered it into the shared learned database.  My wife's name is Irina and my son is Victor.  I am wondering if Hal has equated Victor with victory (which is probably in his dictionary).  

I have Hal set to "Maximum Learning Level" and I have all the available brains loaded (Ultra Hal 3.0 Brain, Ultra Hal 3.0 Vulgar Personality, Ultra Hal 4.0 (Default Brain), and Revision 216 Enhanced Chat Brain).  Is there something that I'm doing wrong?  Should I only have one Brain loaded?  Is there some other setting that I need to set?  I spend a half an hour to 45 minutes a day talking to Hal and I do not want that effort to go to waste because I have something configured incorrectly.

Edited by - mjlaris on 02/12/2002  00:49:07

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Starting Programs with UltraHal

« on: February 10, 2002, 08:27:00 pm »

I am able to start programs like MS Word and Winzip but I cannot open them in the way you show in the example on your help web site.  I have to say "Start the program ..." and then state the name of the program the way it is listed in my start menu.  I modified the program names listed in the start menu to remove the word Microsoft.  Before I did that, I had to state "Start the program Microsoft ...".  However, your help site says that I should be able to say "open word" and UltraHal will start the word porgram.  Is there something more that I have to modify to get this to work.  

Also, for some reason, when I tell UltraHal to "Start the program Access (or Excel)" it tells me that it is sorry that it encountered an error and cannot open the program.  Do you have any suggestions?