Hollywood 5.2 released - 10th Anniversary Edition

[softwarefailure]

Exactly ten years ago today, Hollywood 1.0 was shipped to the first customers. Since then the software has grown to one of the largest Amiga programs and is now available for all major systems including the mobile platform Android. To celebrate the success story of Hollywood, version 5.2 has been released today for all existing customers of Hollywood. Hollywood 5.2 is a major update which includes several new features among the usual bug fixes. Here is a brief overview of new features in 5.2:

- video system is now completely platform-independent which means that Hollywood video plugins will work now on every system incl. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android
- support for commodity hotkeys (Amiga)
- support for tray icons (Windows)
- extensions in the plugin interface
- own error handler can be defined
- support for multiple screens (Amiga)
- improved support for Android
- better support for animations using alphachannels

A complete list of changes can be found in the history section of the documentation.

Hollywood 5.2 is the first joint release of Hollywood for both desktop and mobile platforms. Users of the Android version can conveniently update to 5.2 via Google Play while users of the Amiga and Windows versions can download update archives (35 to 45 MB in size) free of charge from the official Hollywood portal.

Please note that Hollywood 5.2 is currently only available for existing customers and cannot be purchased at this time.

[billt]

Please note that Hollywood 5.2 is currently only available for existing customers and cannot be purchased at this time.

I was unemployed when the "get it while you can" announcement came out, and was not able to do so. I look forward to it being for sale again someday.

[cecilia]

I have 4.7 but I would have liked to get 5

but it's been a hell of a spring/summer/fall

[som99]

Nice news, tho I see no way of buying this for 68k Amiga?

[trekiej]

Will Hollywood be sold again someday?

[Matt_H]

Will Hollywood be sold again someday?

Let's hope so. It's a true professional-grade product. I have a nasty inkling that some sort of legal nonsense / patent trolling is behind the discontinuation of sales. Hopefully it gets resolved soon.

[Templario]

Good news for the current customers, the other, well, you arrive late, when Hollywood was available for purchase the Amiga users are waiting for it will be free, and the much users, we like other programming languages because they are free, well, currently Hollywood is the best and easy programming language, athough also it is perfectat least you can make games and tools.... for example the V.A.M.P. player.

[cecilia]

is it possible to get this V.A.M.P. player for Android?

[Templario]

is it possible to get this V.A.M.P. player for Android?

Yes and No, because currently I'm working in a new version with skin but I'll have test it the player compiled with the new Hollywood 5.2 because with Hollywood 5.1 the V.A.M.P. player doesn't work.

[cecilia]

thanks for the info

[Templario]

Already is available the MorphOS, AmigaOS4 and Windows version in the site http://www.vamp.es
the Android version, I'll have to prepare a SD card with the script, the plugins and the movies, song and pictures and well the more difficult the colaboration to my brother and his tablet with Android.
When I'll test it I write the result.

[Templario]

Already is available the MorphOS, AmigaOS4 and Windows version in the site http://www.vamp.es
the Android version, I'll have to prepare a SD card with the script, the plugins and the movies, song and pictures and well the more difficult the colaboration to my brother and his tablet with Android.
When I'll test it I write the result.

[Templario]

Tested, V.A.M.P. runs on Android but it doesn't work, is impossible open a movie or graphic.

[Rabbi]

I was wondering when Hollywood would be available for sale again.  I was previously unable to purchase it due to my disease of "Fundsarelow", which takes lots of money to cure.  I would like to purchase it when it becomes available again.