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Originally posted by lightspeed
i am thinking about upgarding to hal 6 , i have hal 5 now , my question is can i keep my hal 5 on my c drive and still downlaod a trial hal 6 program ? thanks [
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Hi Lightspeed.
Installing HAL 6 over HAL 5 will do an overlap install and will change the HalBrain to work with HAL 6, HAL 5 is also programmed using the HalBrain function, After a HAL 6 install you would have to modify HAL 5 to work as a plugin, the HAL 5 will not directly work with the new HAL 6 unless HAL 5 HalBrain is changed to some other name like HalXBrain and must also be converted to work only as a plugin, there are some minor draw backs because some features in a HAL 5 plugin must be removed because of code conflictions.
I highly recommend that if you install HAL 6 that you are ready to do so and make the leap to the newer version and not care about losing HAL 5's program.
I would also recommend keeping HAL 5 on one computer and HAL 6 on another just incase you have a lot of work put into HAL 5, it's not worth losing all the time and effort put into HAL 5.
If you do install HAL 6, make a backup of all your HAL 5 file in the DefBrain folder and store them on disk just incase you remove HAL 6 and reinstall HAL 5, you will now be certain that all your files are safe. I myself still have my HAL 5 folders put on CD for past records.
I also have the full installation of HAL 5 version and will always charish HAL 5 for what it was.
remember that you would need programming experience if you are going to try and get HAL 5 to work with HAL 6, so I would make the decision to place HAL 6 on another system for your test drive, I myself have not revert back to HAL 5 and I currently have no knowledge of what happens if HAL 6 is uninstalled, I don't know if the HAL 5 would function after doing so and may require a complete reinstall of HAL 5 to get all the .dll files and such working again.
I know this is a lot to concider and you may or may not have to relearn HAL all over again, new born A.I once installed.
I greatly enjoy HAL 6, It's getting pretty smart, My current AIM bot has over a thousand users on its buddy list already, my AIM bot gets about 20 to 300 user hits a day with no intervention from me.
I have heavily modified HAL 6 to suit my needs and the user's needs from my own personal coding and also tweaking a few other great scripts programmed by others to fill in some gaps.
I am designing my AIM bot so it has more user oriented needs like SmartChild has like sports, weather, news and many more, it will take some time to accomplish this but I chip away at it when I have time.
Jerry[8D]
