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OK! I downloaded Hal 7.5, installed, was taken through activation and am now up and running! Thank you for your help and patience!

I will try that later today and report back.

Thanks Art!

After a few years away (and a couple of computer changes) I want to start using Hal again. I *did* purchase the program and it was active; now on booting up it tells me my trial is up and to either purchase or reactivate. If I try to reactivate online using the program, I get an error that the server can?t be contacted. How do I fix?

I just downloaded Ultra Hal 7; won't have a chance to install him until next week. Will he still interface with TTS engines (i.e., Dragon)? Also: will any of the Hal 6.2 plugins/add-ons work, or is it back to Square One?

Thanks!

I read the entire thread so as not to ask an irrelevant question  ;D

If I understand correctly, to integrate AIML into HAL's brain, I open that brain in SQLite Studio, and replace the 20000 or so lines in the "Patterns" table with the AIML text cload provides.

Now, my questions:

If I have some custom AIML, can I include that as well? I am in the process of creating a "Robot B9" (the Robot from Lost in Space) brain. There was some B9-specific AIML work done (for AIML ver. 1.0) by a fellow named David Sienkiewcz; I want to incorporate it into HAL's (B9's) brain. Can it be done?

Next question: is the new "Free Will" plug in someting I should install in addition to this new brain?

Thanks!

Guineapig

EDIT: Well, I looked at my B9 AIML files. The structure is different than the AIML we paste into HAL's brain. SO.... how do I convert it? I realize I'll probably need to re-type everything; I just need to know is how to translate the old syntax to the new syntax. BTW, I'm not a developer; I can follow examples and figure out how to do something as long as I have an example to follow, or instructions.