The big advantage of Hollywood is that it does all the framework for you. You do not have to care, for example, whether your application is going to run on 68k, PowerPC or i386. With Hollywood it runs on all of them. Even for the most complex operations, Hollywood has simple functions that do them, so you can concentrate yourself on the important thing - your project - and create stunning applications in a very short time. The powerful Hollywood scheduler allows you to create presentations that are perfectly synchronized to the music - no matter if your presentation runs on a 50 Mhz or 1 Ghz CPU.

Hollywood is fully 32-bit enhanced which means that you can use images with up to 16.7 million colors and an alpha channel. Additionally, it is fully integrated into AmigaOS and does not rely on any specific custom chip hardware to be available. Therefore, Hollywood also runs on emulations like Amithlon or WinUAE with amazing speed. Hollywood comes with a GUI that allows to control the program efficiently and easily.

Using the Hollywood script language, the possibilities are almost unlimited. The basic version of Hollywood comes with over 400 functions that range from disk operating system (DOS) functions to functions that allow you to smoothly scroll animations and graphics over your display. There are also many functions that allow you to display objects, pictures and texts with over 150 cool transition effects, or scale graphics and animations. You can also 24-bit fade objects, text and pictures smoothly. With the new Hollywood layers nothing is impossible: You have full control over the position, transparency and light settings of every layer which allows you to realize almost everything!

Hollywood uses the datatypes system to load all graphics, animations and sounds which allows you to use all formats you have datatypes for. Additionally, it supports unique things like transparent windows which enhance the look-and-feel of your Workbench screen greatly. You can use true type fonts, intellifonts, standard bitmap fonts, and even the cool Amiga color fonts with Hollywood. Of course, antialiasing is fully supported for all vector fonts.

Hollywood has an integrated image processor which offers many possibilities to manipulate graphics in an easy and effective way. You can apply the following operations to images: Rotate, scale, stretch, lighten, darken, mirror, scale to gray level, texture, invert, tint, replace colors and mix pictures. With this extensive scale of operations, Hollywood supports you with everything you need for modern image processing.

Starting with Hollywood 2.0, the program comes with an extensive sprite library that is indispensable for all game developers. Hollywood sprites are completely implemented in software and therefore are not limited in size or color depth: You can use huge sprites with 16.7 million colors and an alpha channel! The sprite library also features things like pixel-exact collision detection.

The integrated sound system is fully retargetable through AHI and allows you to play music modules, sound samples, and MP3s. The sound system includes support for full channel mixing and master volume effect. You can play virtually an unlimited number of sounds of any length at the same time. In 16-bit and with 44.1 kHz of course.

Hollywood features complete support for ARexx. You can communicate with other applications via ARexx and you can also open your own ARexx port and receive commands. This allows you to further enhance your scripts and create applications that can also be controlled via ARexx. All of this can be done very easily with just a few lines of code! Remember that Hollywood always provides maximum flexibility with a minimum amount of work.

Hollywood is a high-end application that needs a modern Amiga setup to work. Therefore, a hi- or truecolor screenmode is required for Hollywood and you should have at least 16 megabytes of free memory after boot.

Hollywood is the absolutely number one choice in Amiga Multimedia nowadays and brings the Amiga back to its roots...Multimedia! It comes with a compiler which can save your applications as stand-alone Amiga executables which can be freely distributed. Additionally every Hollywood version can write executables for every platform Hollywood supports. So you can use your 68k-version of Hollywood to create real AmigaOS4 executables and vice versa! This enables you to publish AmigaOS4 versions of your projects without having AmigaOS4 running! Another example: MorphOS users can create 68k, OS4, WarpOS, or even AROS executables with their version, too. Starting with Hollywood 3.0 it is even possible to compile programs for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS with Hollywood!

Hollywood is delivered on CD-ROM with over 50 ready-to-run examples that show the power of it. Additionally there is nearly 1 megabyte of documentation which covers every field of application of Hollywood. Hollywood is only available directly through Airsoft Softwair. You can place your order by clicking here.

Although all this may sound a bit complicated to you, it is very easy. Programming skills are not necessary. They are only of use if you want to create complex applications but for the average Hollywood use, you do not need them because Hollywood is really easy to handle.

Graphics:

	Fully 32-bit enhanced!
	Powerful sprite library!
	Support for alpha-blended graphics
	Support for multiple graphics layers
	Support for layer transparency and light correction
	Transparent windows are possible
	Over 150 transition effects for objects, pictures and texts
	Many high-end transitions like water ripples, strudel, pixel storm, ...
	Graphics can be scrolled smoothly
	Has an integrated image-processor that supports: Rotation, color inverting, gray scaling, axis flipping, texturing, mixing and tinting
	Smooth and fast animation play back
	Support for transparent graphics and animations including alpha transparency
	Functions for using textures and creating gradients
	Support for datatypes
	Easy animation of objects
	Support for true type, intelli, bitmap and color fonts including antialias support
	Powerful text engine with on-the-fly formatting like HTML
	Free scaling and rotation of graphics is possible
	Off-screen rendering is supported (also to masks and alpha channels!)
	Integrated easy Undo system
	Extensive graphics library can draw ellipses, lines, rectangles, polygons, round rectangles, ...
	Full support for anti-aliased graphics
	Inbuilt styles to add a shadow and border to text and graphics
	Clip regions can be installed (rectangular or custom shaped)
	Pixel-exact collision detection (mask and alpha channel are taken into account, too!)
	Easy functions to set-up a double buffered display
	Support for image export including PNG export with alpha channel

Sound:

	Support for MP3s and samples
	Sound playback via streaming is possible
	Full channel mixing
	Support for music modules
	Volume and pitch of samples can be modified during playback
	Sample size is not limited
	Full Stereo playback in 8 or 16-bit
	Master volume effect
	Fully retargetable through AHI

Script language:

	Powerful, fast, and extremely flexible 64-bit script language
	Very easy to use! Automatic conversion between strings and numbers!
	Scripts run inside a sandbox: They can never crash your system!
	Many different data types: Strings, numbers, constants, arrays, records, structures
	Supports all established language elements (If, While, For, Repeat, Switch, Function, Goto, Gosub)
	Easy handling of variables (initialization and declaration not necessary!)
	Global and local variables
	Language has operators for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, integer division, string concatenation, modulo, power, and, or, not (logical and bitwise), left shift, right shift, bitwise xor
	Language can even be used for object-oriented programming!
	Compiler and linker to convert your script to an executable
	Compiler can create OS3, MorphOS, WarpOS, AmigaOS4, AROS, Windows, and Mac OS executables
	Inbuilt error handler that does all the error handling work for you
	Functions for debugging your script
	Communicate with other applications from Hollywood via ARexx!
	Support for installing own ARexx ports into the system!
	Plugins can be used to enhance Hollywood's functionality

User interaction:

	Buttons can be defined
	Joystick can be queried
	Hollywood buttons support mouse click and mouse over events
	Layers can be used as buttons
	Keyboard input can be monitored
	System keys can be monitored
	Window events (window is moved, sized, closed etc.) can be monitored with ease
	Easily read whole strings from keyboard
	Pop up file, path and string requesters to ask the user for input
	GUI to control the program with ease

System functions:

	Read from and write to files
	Full control over the DOS I/O modes (buffered, unbuffered)
	Easily read whole directories into an array
	Various DOS operations (copy, delete, rename, crc32 calculation...)
	Powerful scheduler to synchronize script with music
	Easy functions to use arrays as lists
	Retrieve information about hard disks, memory...
	Make your program multilingual by using Hollywood's locale.library support
	Many time and date functions
	Application can open on Workbench or own screen

Please note that although Hollywood can save programs for Windows and Mac OS, it is not available in a stand-alone version for these platforms. You will need an Amiga compatible operating system in every case.

	Amiga: Hi- or Truecolor screenmode, 68020 CPU
	Windows: at least Windows 2000
	Macintosh: at least Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)

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Unfortunately there is no demo version available for download. The reason for this is that all the demo versions of my other programs were cracked and I do not want this to happen with Hollywood, too. So there will be only screenshots available to demonstrate how powerful Hollywood is. Thanks for your understanding.

Freely available downloads:

	Update3_1FIX.lha Fix for Hollywood 3.1 (25-Mar-08)
	Update3_1.lha Update to Hollywood 3.1 (22-Mar-08)
	HollywoodSwe.lha (Swedish translation by Pär Boberg)

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