Ultra Hal Assistant Free Version
Version 4.0
(c) 2001 Zabaware, Inc.
http://www.zabaware.com
info@zabaware.com

Ultra Hal Assistant is your digital secretary and companion. With Hal
you can hold conversations with your computer. Hal has many animated
characters to choose from and he speaks to you out loud through your
sound card with his own voice! Hal canchat with you, remember
appointments, remember phone numbers, dial phone numbers for you,
remember email addresses, start emails for you, start programs for
you, help you use your computer, help you browse the Internet, and
more.

This program requires a pentium class computer with at least 32MB RAM
and 30 MB hard drive space. A sound card is highly reccomended.

To install this program simply execute the setup.exe file included in
this archive.  Uninstall support is provided. Make sure to close
*ALL* programs before installing Ultra Hal Assistant. If a previous
version of Ultra Hal Assistant is installed, it must be removed before
installing this new version. Ultra Hal Assistant has been tested to
work on on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP. However, a few
things to note:
  * Windows 95 users must have DCOM95 or Internet Explorer 4.0
    installed in order for Hal to work properly. DCOM is available at:
    http://download.microsoft.com/msdownload/dcom/95/x86/en/dcom95.exe
  * Windows NT 4.0 users need to have the Windows Installer service
    installed in order for Hal to install. The Windows Installer for
    Windows NT is available from:
    http://www.installengine.com/Msiengine/instmsiw.exe

Improvements since Ultra Hal Assistant 3.0:
  * A total of 20 different animated characters to choose from
  * A total of 27 different high-quality voices to choose from
  * A customizable skin user interface, with 6 built in skins
  * A 8 MB conversational database, 3 times as large as in Ultra Hal
    Assistant 3.0
  * Improved speech recognition engine
  * Overall intelligence and assistant features improved.
  * Hal Brain Editor program added to customize and program every
  * aspect of Ultra Hal.
  * Various bug fixes