Hi Mark, Hal is a terrific program and I don't have any bad intention to convert anyone to something else (on his dedicated site!) [

]. Just made two little experiments with my prehistoric computer.
1- With a bot of mine on Pandorabots (must be connected):

2- With my 2girls stuff, saying random sentences to me (in French, lol):

The gals were moving and speaking on the screen when I took the screenshots (not a background). I used the Active Desktop (it's obviously possible to get rid of the icons). It works because the 2 stuffs are just 2 html pages and I don't know if HAL can be used like that.
BTW it's just for fun, and I never use that, because needing half of the resources of my dear old PC!! [

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