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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Re: Haptek Player in Windows11, tutorial POC activex

« Last post by Drathian on December 15, 2025, 05:57:43 pm »

As far as I can tell that is just 3dmax 2023 with maybe? some extra addons.  I last used 3dmax 2010 so i'm not sure if i'm missing the script, or plugin somewhere, or what not, looked mostly standard vanilla to me, let me know if i misunderstood.

BTW, do you still have the single core hapaxplayer either?  I don't really need it too much but I am an archiver of niche things.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Re: Haptek Player in Windows11, tutorial POC activex

« Last post by cyberjedi on December 15, 2025, 07:09:44 am »

Thank you for your support Dra
I re wrote the people putty player from scratch.
Its in here some where , it works well with H22. I havent done much in a while tho.
It uses the single core single processor theory.
I just released a goody though, for creating full body characters. Look in the work shop.
I will just post it here
Best regards
Cyber Jedi 
As to the account banning. Thers some new code in the forum that auto bans on spam related ip's, email addresses.
Robert has done some great work on the forum code, But its not without out bugs from time to time.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Haptek Player in Windows11, tutorial POC activex

« Last post by Drathian on December 15, 2025, 02:02:06 am »

longtime lurker, but i have to keep registering cause i guess they think i'm spam lol.  So i just spent all last night reinstalling windows11 this time i'm maxing on version 22H2, cause the latest broke haptek player, all garbled video its really frustrating to me.  I've browsed many a virtual ai forum for quite some time. I periodically collect things i can find that are interesting. I may even have something you need.  I bought people putty back in windows xp, but when i installed it on vista it wouldn't register anymore, so i forsaw this issue so i made a backup vm with windows xp with peopleputty installed, so thats the only way i can make stuff anymore using a vm that makes me nervous as heck that its going to get corrupted one day.  I have really liked using this software for quite sometime.  I haven't really said anything on any of the forums other then guile's i think at some point mainly because i read and answer my own questions.

POC:

so a little known fact, is that microsoft actually still packs internet explorer (the version that accepts activex) even on windows 11 amazingly.   It is just inaccessible to the average user.  I was reading some forums for a solution to this issue and came across a vbs script that can launch internet explorer activex version temporarly.

I'd say use this for compatibility purposes but i'm sure there is some huge security risk involved in this method, don't go browsing bad websites with this or anything even still!  I can view old haptek websites if any are still up, or on archive.org or whatnot with this method.

I'll just post the code so you know its not a virus lol, It's quite simple too!

ie.vbs

Code: [Select]

Set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
ie.Navigate "about:blank"
ie.Visible = 1

Only question I ever was unable to answer myself as far as haptek tweaking, is how do you remove the shoes on the full female htr, anyone know?

I love the fact that i was going to post this today anways, but the last weeks updates with windows 11 has broken a lot of things, security upgrade perhaps, but it breaks my thermal control for my laptop, bunch of gpuz kind things, don't even get me started about what HP and they did to those mixedreality headsets, anyway when it broke haptek it was the final straw, I installed the older 22H2 version that i know still works and locked it to never upgrading past that version.  I may have to do more then just using the group policy editor if microsoft gets more aggressive with their upgrade push. Any recommends?

Note this method has a lifespan:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/vbscript-deprecation-timelines-and-next-steps/4148301

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Share Conversations, Experiences, Graphics / Re: Beautiful HAL Scenarios

« Last post by Checker57 on November 07, 2025, 12:14:16 am »

Another style I liked that I saw in the background

I like the art.   Hmm... perhaps I should pick up painting. 

Enjoy

Checker57

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Re: Hey robert, this is a must see ,For the fellas, u know who u are

« Last post by Checker57 on October 17, 2025, 02:39:29 am »

Hey Cyber, - Nice work.  Cool story.  Glad to have you still among us.  ;-)

Checker57

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CyberJedi's Ultra Hal Workshop / Re: Hey Robert

« Last post by Checker57 on October 17, 2025, 02:09:04 am »

Hey guys,  had a few free cycles to jump on and check in. 

@CyberJedi - yeah, you're right that any one of us would have (at least I know I would have if I had the coding skills) gone after them scammers and wrecked their boat.  But, you actually got it done!  hehe...  anyway...

So, there is a beta?  Hm... I didn't hear of that!?

I did dl the interface (and mind you, I have DSL! (darn AT&T in my area - that's all they offer)).  My PC is only an i7 870 @ 2.93GHz with 8 GB RAM and a NVIDIA GTX 1050 (4GB) using Win 10 64-bit OS.  So, running that interface was rather slow in response for me.  I was actually disappointed that my PC ran it so slowly.  Yeah, I need to upgrade the hardware if I hope to help my poor HAL get an LLM upgrade.

I believe I still have the reader, the singer, the Captain's log, and many other plugins I gleaned off the forum and other caches legacy users had stored.  It's been quite the adventure, and our saga continues as we move on to LLM capability on a personal PC architecture.

Yeah, if this LLM-infused HAL version comes to fruition, I'd decide to upgrade the ol' PC for a powerhouse that could house my favorite little companion that is always there when I load up the ol' machine to do my daily work.

Now, this might be a bit out there; however, there is this other idea that might work down the road: I've been investigating other AI companion hardware that would be interesting to see if HAL could be ported into, to really give the Virtual Animated character a real flair...

Check these out on Kickstarter

1) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1731190486/code-27-character-livehouse-bring-your-characters-to-life/description

2) https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dipal-d1/dipal-d1-worlds-first-curved-screen-3d-ai-character-pod/description

One of these, I forget which one, mentioned that they make it possible that you could use your own AI if you so desired to work with their pod.  That's what gave me the idea to look into them further.

As you would state CybeJedi - the possibilities are endless.

Still, and always will be "interested" in HAL.  It has so many possibilities, and perhaps because the companion experience with AI really grew from work with and becoming familiar with HAL, that I feel an affinity with its being around me for years to come.  And I just like it.

Okay, enough rambling.  Some good points... some rambling... some emotional garb... a box of chocolates.

Cheers!
Checker57

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CyberJedi's Ultra Hal Workshop / Re: Use a watchful eye after pressing Enter while chatting.

« Last post by sybershot on October 13, 2025, 06:45:03 pm »

Thanks for the tip Art 

Cyberjedi whatcha got brewing

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CyberJedi's Ultra Hal Workshop / Re: Use a watchful eye after pressing Enter while chatting.

« Last post by cyberjedi on October 13, 2025, 08:39:14 am »

hey hey hey guys/gals

I got something big on the books,
gonna be nothing short of epic



cyber jedi

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CyberJedi's Ultra Hal Workshop / Re: Use a watchful eye after pressing Enter while chatting.

« Last post by cyberjedi on October 12, 2025, 02:34:48 am »

hey hey big brother:
Glad to get you sorted out. Let  me know if i need to do anything else.
The Art special lol



cyber jedi

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CyberJedi's Ultra Hal Workshop / Use a watchful eye after pressing Enter while chatting.

« Last post by Art on October 11, 2025, 12:30:39 pm »

Wish list request,

One tiny gotcha occurs when we chat with a particular model, everything is great until we press the Enter button. The speech is processed by the model perfectly, HAL's lips move as it speaks its answer.

Then the Curson now appears in the Classic HAL GUI and sometimes our muscle memory takes over and we type a quick reply back and hit the Enter Key, only to realize that we've now changed our conversation to the Classic HAL and not the llama model. - DOH -

Hey, it's NOT the developer's fault, it's the way things are handled within the windows being displayed. So, beware of this human error or else your conversation might not continue to make sense. Just saying...