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Ultra Hal 7.0 / UltraHal for Linux

« on: June 22, 2009, 02:18:39 am »

Hi Again
My update on my latest test of UltraHal on Linux.
This time I am using the following setup
Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit version
WINE wine-1.1.24
UltraHal 6.2

I am sorry to say, But still no real progress.
Ultra Hal installs with errors.
He speaks, but does not accept keyboard input.

Well until the next version :-)

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / UltraHal for Linux

« on: June 01, 2009, 03:19:51 am »

Hi

Many thanks to all the responses so far.
As I have said I have been following UltraHAL for many years now.
I have also seen various requests in the past to get Ultra Hal working on Linux.

Short of Ultra Hal being ported to Linux native code (I wish, but unlikely) WINE is the next best bet.

What I am looking for is other Linux users who would Like to run Ultra Hal on their system of choice.
WINE is a system to allow Windows programs to run on Linux.
It does this intercepting the system calls made by Windows programs to Windows dll's and runs the corresponding Linux System call.

WINE has made leaps and bounds in the last few years.
Currently many people run World Of Warcraft on WINE (my brother included) If this program runs I do not see any issue on getting Ultra HAL working on WINE.

The point of this thread is to pool our Knowledge to try and get Ultra Hal working. I have added my efforts to the WINE Application database.
I will also raise bug requests to the WINE devs where I find problems.

Please no reponses that it will never work. You may be right, but that should not stop people from trying.

One thing that is aa real possibility is the WINE development environment. What this does is when Ultra HAL is compiled from source instead of using the windows Dlls etc, it is compiled against the WINE libraries. This does two things, one it has a greater chance of running on windows and Linux without modification and two makes it easier to find any bugs in WINE code.

This was done by Google and others to get programs working on Linux
See Google Picassa as an example.

Anyway All other Linux users, Lets see if we can pool our knowledge together and get Ultra HAl working on Linux

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / UltraHal for Linux

« on: May 18, 2009, 07:23:46 am »

My latest effort to get Ultra Hal 6.2 running under Linux
My platform
Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit version
bcl43@supernova:~$ wine --version
wine-1.1.21
The program installs after after a few reties.
Starting Ultra Hal shows that it is startings however it disapears. After about 5 minutes it starts.
I can then go through the configurations steps and get to the Ultra Hal window.
The 3d image of HAL is missing. But Hal Speaks!!! :-)
The issue I am really having is Ultra Hal ignores everything I type.
except for when I just press enter with no text.
He says " Please say something"

Anyway Not ideal , but it does show that it's at least possible to get Hal running under Linux.

Anyone else had any luck?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / UltraHal for Linux

« on: May 04, 2009, 08:37:31 pm »

Hi
I do have WindowsXP in a Vmware session.
This runs very well, however I do not have sound.
Dual booting windows is not an option for me as it is too painful
to reboot every time I want to use HAL.

I know Robert is very busy with maintaining UltraHal.
Perhaps it would be possible if he could check against the WINE Libraries. A bit like Google did with Picassa.
Kind regards.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / UltraHal for Linux

« on: May 04, 2009, 09:50:33 am »

Hi there.
I have been following Ultra Hal for a number of years and have run it a few time on Windows.
I do not use Windows anymore, But I love the idea of Ultra Hal.

What I would like to know is if anyone has had and success running Ultra Hal 6.2 on Linux using WINE.
I have been able to get Ultra Hal 6.2 to start and speak. However I cannot enter any text.
Any other Linux users out there who has been able to run this?
My system is
Ubuntu 9.04 and WINE 1.1.20

Any thoughts

Thanks.