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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: softwarefailure on January 03, 2010, 03:22:00 PM
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Airsoft Softwair are very proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 4.5 (Codename: Snowflake). This is a huge update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 4.0. In this update we paid special attention to all the wishes that reached us from the ever growing Hollywood community. We carefully listened to all these requests and tried to realize as many wishes as possible. Hollywood 4.5 is undoubtedly the most advanced Amiga multimedia application. It is highly stable, extremely easy to use and flexible, and enjoyed by many happy Amiga users around the globe. Furthermore, professional commercial companies like Ferrule Media (http://www.ferrule-media.no) are highly successful thanks to Hollywood's multimedia power. The best pro Hollywood argument is of course that it is available in native versions for 8 (eight) different platforms: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86), Mac OS X (PPC), Mac OS X (x86).
Among the countless new features in Hollywood 4.5 is the ability to open multiple windows with Hollywood (scripts are no longer limited to a single window!), fonts can be embedded into executables (it's no longer necessary to install them first), windows can use alpha channel transparency, hardware accelerated transition effects (only on AmigaOS 4.1 and MorphOS 2), full clipboard support, load and save GIF animations, save AVI videos, drag'n'drop support, and much much more.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 4.5:
* Support for unlimited displays
* Fonts can be linked into executables
* Displays can use alpha-channel transparency
* Hardware accelerated transition effects
* Display manager completely rewritten - much more flexible now!
* Resource monitor to track script's memory usage
* Extremely easy access to the clipboard (text, images)
* GIF anim support: Load and save GIF anims now!
* Access to AVI video stream renderer from Hollywood
* Seamless FX seeking: all fx can now be transformed on-the-fly
* Layers system greatly extended
* Support for animations with alpha channel
* Drag'n'drop support
* New offscreen drawing modes for anims and images
* User-definable drag and size regions
* Full-screen/windowed switching now possible from script API
* New OS exclusive functions (access icon tooltypes on AmigaOS, or the registry on windows)
* Support for matrix transformations on layers and brushes
* 64-bit and CMYK images now fully supported (incl. 16-bit alpha channel)
* Support for layer clip regions
* Possibility to open URLs from Hollywood
* Support for saving 24bit IFF ILBM images
* Successfully tested on Snow Leopard and Windows 7!
* More than 250kb of new documentation
* 10 new example scripts (over 70 in total)
* Standard library set encompasses over 470 functions now!
* Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
* Ready for X!
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other two modern desktop systems, Windows and Mac OS! With Hollywood, you can save programs for all those platforms. You do not have to have AmigaOS4 or AROS, you can save programs for these platforms also from your AmigaOS3 installation! You do not need to have Mac OS X, you can still compile your programs for it using your AmigaOS or MorphOS installation. Only Hollywood makes it possible.
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 4.5 now! (http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com)
Please visit the Airsoft Softwair homepage for much more information (http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de/en/prod_hollywood.html) on Hollywood and screenshots. (http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de/en/news.html)
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First of all I want to congratulate Andreas and Airsoft Softwair with the release of Hollywood 4.5
We (Ferrule Media) have been allowed to use v. 4.5 for some time developing our latest software. It feels great to be able to use Amigas to develop commercial software!
I can assure you that Hollywood is getting better and better by each relase - Andreas Falkenhahn is truely an amazing coder!
hehe.. it seems that alot of great stuff is happening in the amigascene these days!
I do hope alot of os4 /morphOS users buys this software and take part of the great Hollywood community !
best regards
Torgeir Vee
Ferrule Media
http://www.ferrule-media.no
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Placed my upgrade order! I use HW nearly daily at the office. I created a Virtual Receptionist kiosk that calls users in our office. I have been working on a few simple games as well. Can't wait to get the upgrade in!
Thanks for all your hard work Andreas!
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This just keeps getting better and better! I can't resist any more, I am definitely going to buy Hollywood soon. I'll probably be saving for X first of all, but maybe there'll be a bundle or something, who knows :D
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One of the real benefits of using Hollywood is the feature that makes it possible to save executables for several platforms.
When it comes to our infochannel Dental Kanal we are able send demos of the product as either windows or mac-executables. The real product however is sold with a SAM 440ep 667mhz running os4.1.
The presentation is running in the resolution 1366x768. Since we use hardware-accelerated crossfade-effects it does need alot of gfx-memory – the sam has got 64mb gfx-mem.
For people lucky enough to own os4 I have uploaded a few example executables of the os4-version. This is ment as an example of what is possible with Hollywood 4.5. On our homepage you will also be able to download pc/mac-versions so that you may compare the different versions.
The presentations may be paused using «space» and moved forward/backward using the left or right arrow-key
Dental Kanal main-demo OS4 (http://www.ferrule-media.no/amiga/Dental-Kanal-real-OS4) – a complete demo showing 2 topics aswell as some fullscreen photos and some fun-stuff.
Dental Kanal Demo 1 OS4 (http://www.ferrule-media.no/amiga/Dental-Kanal-demo1-OS4)
(for pc/mac demos check our homepage (http://www.ferrule-media.no/dental-kanal-demo.html) )
Dental Kanal Demo 2 OS4 (http://www.ferrule-media.no/amiga/Dental-Kanal-demo2-OS4)
(for pc/mac demos check our homepage (http://www.ferrule-media.no/dental-kanal-demo.html) )
The presentations was made using Hollywood Designer - a very nice addition to Hollywood:) You will find more information about Designer at the homepage of Airsoft Softwair (http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de/en/index.html)
Best regards
Torgeir Vee
Ferrule Media
www.ferrule-media.no (http://www.ferrule-media.no)
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One of the real benefits of using Hollywood is the feature that makes it possible to save executables for several platforms
That's one of the things that grabbed my attention the most, that has a lot of potential! It made me wonder though, why do you sell your product bundled with Sam rather than (for example) a cheap AMD system? Do the OS4 versions run better or have more options etc, or is it the novelty of having a commercial product running on OS4 (which indeed must be pretty cool)?
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Well, our other software "Dental Info" is only sold to windows-machines.
The infochannel on the other hand has got some advantages running on 0S4.
No piracy of our software - since it is running on os4.1
Great stability - we have not have any crashes yet.
Easy to use - power on/off with one button... no keyboard/mouse needs to be connected
Fast to turn on and off
Fun to set up since we may use amigas
Our customers do not care what kind of machine is hosting the infochannel...they want something that is fast and easy to use.
I can really recomend Hollywood/Designer - do not hesitate to ask if you have more questions!
Torgeir Vee
Ferrule Media
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It seems like Hollywood 4.5 would be good platform to develop (simple) multiplatform games. Haven't seen many games using Hollywood though. Is there some good reason for this? Odd scripting language, slow exes ... ???
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No piracy of our software - since it is running on os4.1
Great stability - we have not have any crashes yet.
Easy to use - power on/off with one button... no keyboard/mouse needs to be connected
Fast to turn on and off
Fun to set up since we may use amigas
Aha - makes sense, seems obvious now! Thanks :)
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It seems like Hollywood 4.5 would be good platform to develop (simple) multiplatform games. Haven't seen many games using Hollywood though. Is there some good reason for this? Odd scripting language, slow exes ... ???
That's exactly what I was thinking of! :D Could be good for making point & click adventure games etc. I think I'm gonna give it a go when I have some spare cash.
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I have some hidden mini games in my kiosk, I'll see about pulling them to their own standalone program and throw them on aminet here soon.
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Pete_Noir & Splurge great!
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to Splurge
I would love to hear more about your kiosk-system - what does it do, and how does it work ? have you got any screenshots ?
best regards
Torgeir Vee
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to Splurge
I would love to hear more about your kiosk-system - what does it do, and how does it work ? have you got any screenshots ?
best regards
Torgeir Vee
I have a Dell touchscreen computer sitting on our receptionist area. We had to layoff our human receptionist this year due to the economy, so I came up with a virtual receptionist. It is basically just allows visitors to directly contact and talk to any of our staff from the kiosk. Or make deliveries to our mail room with a floor map on where to drop off packages. Of course there are nice pictures and transitions throughout.
To keep costs down, I didn't get a Sam to run it, I bought a cheap Dell Studio One (http://www.dell.com/us/en/home/desktops/desktop-studio-one-19/pd.aspx?refid=desktop-studio-one-19&cs=19&s=dhs) from eBay and exported my script to Windows. I did have to write a separate program in VB to control our IP phone.
I can get some screen shots posted for ya, but I'll probably remove our staff names just for privacy reasons.
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Hi Fusko, the binary I downloaded of the MacOS version of the dental kanal demo will not run on a PowerPC Mac, even though the specs say it will run on Intel, G3, G4 or G5. It is an Intel-only binary according to 'Get Info' and trying to run it on my Powerbook gives a 'not supported on this architecture' message.
Does this mean the Mac executables produced by Hollywood are only for Intel Macs, or can it produce Universal Binaries?
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Hi Lando!
This is infact my mistake - the Mac executables on our homepage was compiled using a beta-version of Hollywood 4.5 that only produced intel-executables. I forgot to edit the specs on our homepage :)
The final version of Hollywood 4.5 does support both intel and ppc-macs. When you compile the software you may choose what operatingsystem you want to support (so you may infact make executables for all supported operatingsystems in one go (amigaOS, morphOS, Win, MacOS etc.).
I don't own a Mac myself and don't know much about it.. is it possible for intel-macs to emulate/run ppc-mac executables ?
best regards
Torgeir Vee
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Pre-Snow Leopard, a PPC emulation layer called Rosetta was a standard part of the install on intel Macs, as of Snow Leopard it's an optional install, it allows you to run most PPC binaries, but since the switch to intel is a long time ago apple has started to ween us away from using PPC software.
Hi Lando!
This is infact my mistake - the Mac executables on our homepage was compiled using a beta-version of Hollywood 4.5 that only produced intel-executables. I forgot to edit the specs on our homepage :)
The final version of Hollywood 4.5 does support both intel and ppc-macs. When you compile the software you may choose what operatingsystem you want to support (so you may infact make executables for all supported operatingsystems in one go (amigaOS, morphOS, Win, MacOS etc.).
I don't own a Mac myself and don't know much about it.. is it possible for intel-macs to emulate/run ppc-mac executables ?
best regards
Torgeir Vee
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This Global Gladiators port was also created using Hollywood:
http://www.softwarefailure.de/barracuda_team/
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This Global Gladiators port was also created using Hollywood:
http://www.softwarefailure.de/barracuda_team/
Thanks, I have to launch A1200 and try.
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While I cant compete with that port, I just uploaded a simple Workbench game that I made in Hollywood.
http://os4depot.net/?function=showfile&file=game/misc/wbrps.lha