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Posted on 14-Dec-2002 17:13 GMT by Andreas Falkenhahn90 comments
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As I got some mails from people saying that they won't buy Hollywood because I'm supporting MorphOS I have to clarify that there will be AmigaOS 4 version of Hollywood of course. But before this can happen, I need a developer version of AmigaOS4 and because such a version does not seem to be available currently, I cannot do anything yet. But there will be definitely an AmigaOS4 version of Hollywood (if it is API compatible to the classic AmigaOS). So, don't panic and don't send me any more of such threatening letters. It's really astonishing how serious this topic seems to be to some people. Additionally the update to the AmigaOS4 version of Hollywood will be free of charge too (as the update to the MorphOS version was). So if you are interested in Hollywood, you can also buy the program now and get the update for free when AmigaOS 4 is finally available.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 1 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by L8-X on 14-Dec-2002 16:16 GMT
Excellent news!!!!!

Gonna get it as soon as its possible!
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 2 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Bill Hoggett on 14-Dec-2002 16:25 GMT
I'm disappointed to hear that you have been harrassed over this.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 3 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by brotheris on 14-Dec-2002 16:27 GMT
"As I got some mails from people saying that they won't buy Hollywood because I'm supporting MorphOS"

I've spilled my tea while reading this. What's next ? Killing because supporting similar platform ?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 4 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 14-Dec-2002 16:29 GMT
is it much work supporting 68k, wos/pup, morphos and soon OS4 ?

What advantages will mos version have, since it got extra features or extended
amiga API ?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 5 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by JoannaK on 14-Dec-2002 16:36 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (catohagen):
Same adwantage as someday upcoming OS4 is supposed to have.. Fully native PPC system.

If you have ever coded those wos/pup systems you'll soon realize those systems spend lots of CPU to switching between processors (clearing caches etc) that's waste of time. In MOS no such thing happens, so even on old BPPC MOS runs applications faster than WOS .. And on program like hollwood, speed id good thing to have. And with new 600Mhz G3 systems, we are getting decently close to todays standards.

Those OS4-supporters worry me.. Trying to intimidate developers to support their dream-platform is not right way to make things happen. It's way too early to make solid pledges of support for nonexisting OS... And empty promices are NOT what we need to near.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 6 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Nicolas Sallin on 14-Dec-2002 16:49 GMT
People writing such stupid thing would probably never buy any product
anyway.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 7 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by reflect on 14-Dec-2002 16:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Nicolas Sallin):
As they say.. empty trashcans rattle the most..
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 8 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by 4pLaY on 14-Dec-2002 17:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Bill Hoggett):
Its what can be expected in todays so called "Amiga Market" theres more or less only die hard fanatics left.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 9 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by nOw2 on 14-Dec-2002 17:00 GMT
Comedy.

People who threaten such things, cutting off even their own supply of software in the process, must be particularly stupid.

Initially I found it funny, now I'm simply sick of it.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 10 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 14-Dec-2002 17:45 GMT
ANN moderators accused, developers threatened, what's next ?
Supporting an OS is fine but be fanatic to this point is nuts and is self destructive for what left of the community.

I was an what you call an Amiga fan but I don't want to be anymore when I see that.

BTW thanks for the great developers still here that can keep up with all of this. Supporting different Amiga platforms is the way to go to prevent a split of the market that would be fatal. I support this idea 100% and thanks the developers that do it.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 11 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 14-Dec-2002 18:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Christophe Decanini):
>Supporting different Amiga platforms is the way to go to prevent a split of the market that would be fatal. I support this idea 100% and thanks the developers that do it.

I have problems seeing how this will end...how will apps using OS4 api work or
be compiled to 68k or wos/pup or morphos ?
And Morphos have some extended api's too....is it possible to 'emulate' these
api's in OS4 or 68k ?

Will it be possible to run Q-box apps on OS4 ? like running A-box on OS4 ?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 12 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Christophe Decanini on 14-Dec-2002 18:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (catohagen):
The API changes should not be that important for the programer.
We already have different APIs on Amiga for certain things (Audio, Gfx, MUI/reaction ...).
Of course it is still extra work for the developer to have it working on multiple platforms.

I was one of the people that wanted to prevent any split.
Now that the split happened (It would have happened anyway with the 68k / PPC) I like to see applications supported on all of them.
I wish that for example at least a 68k version would be released so it would run on classic, OS4, MorphOS, Amithlon, UAE.
Then of course if we can have a native version that take advantage of the OS special features it would be a big bonus.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 13 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 14-Dec-2002 18:30 GMT
" As I got some mails from people saying that they won't buy Hollywood because I'm supporting MorphOS ..."

Wow. Should I laugh or cry? These people desperately need some sense beaten into them. HARD.

So customers like me, who want both MorphOS and AmigaOS, would according to these bumbling fools be better off with Hollywood being discontinued for MorphOS (and potentially for both OSs) because of this Conspiracy of Dunces, rather than seeing it available for what in their sick minds is "the Evil OS" *in addition* to AmigaOS?

OTOH: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 14 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkemyst on 14-Dec-2002 19:03 GMT
It could very well be a MOS supporter poseing as a AmigaOs supporter
to make AOS supporters looked bad.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 15 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Björn Hagström on 14-Dec-2002 19:05 GMT
"they won't buy Hollywood because I'm supporting MorphOS"

Not that I'm a MorphOS supporter myself, but how low can people get. *sigh*

/Björn
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 16 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by brotheris on 14-Dec-2002 19:19 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Alkemyst):
No! These were PC users pretending to be morphos lovers, who pretended to be OS4 diehards. Bill Gates controls them all. Let's make another pie.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 17 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Nicholas Blachford on 14-Dec-2002 20:16 GMT
Irrespective of what platform you support this is an amazing act of stupidity.

It must be bad enough developing in the midst of a war zone but this will positively drive developers away. If you loose developers from MOS they will be lost from AOS also, and that counts the other way around as well.

I for one do not object to developers producing software for both MOS AND AOS, in fact it's going to be financial advantageous and given the size of this market developers need anything advantageous they can get.

If developers are drawn away we shall all suffer, and that would be a sad ending to such a great platform.

There is competition between both sides and that isn't always very pretty but we both know developers are key to growing this market and without them neither of us are going anywhere.

If you don't like the fact there is competition, think of this:
MOS will try and outdo AOS, AOS will try and outdo MOS.
In doing so both MOS and AOS will improve, the result is a win-win for users on both sides.


Regards

The man with the white polo shirt.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 18 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 14-Dec-2002 20:25 GMT
> don't send me any more of such threatening letters.

Sad! Pathetic! How low can people go? As I recall, the guy hadn't even said anything about *not* supporting OS4. It's just that there *IS NO OS4*, so how is he supposed to release software for it?

Threatening letters!!! My god ...!
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 19 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 14-Dec-2002 20:54 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (Christophe Decanini):
> Of course it is still extra work for the developer to have it working on multiple platforms.

Don't forget the extra cash to buy the additional AmigaOne. I can't imagine many developers to be so enthusiastic and careless with their money.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 20 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Viktor Schöneberg on 14-Dec-2002 21:14 GMT
In reply to Comment 15 (Björn Hagström):
Well, I'm not a MOS supporter at all... And I'm happy to hear that there will be a version for OS4. So I think I'll give it a try.

But threatening an developer for developing for MOS that's in fact not OK.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 21 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Ben Yoris on 14-Dec-2002 21:22 GMT
This "community" is walking on the head.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 22 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by José on 14-Dec-2002 21:24 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (Viktor Schöneberg):
Threatening..., Well, from what I've read people sent mails saying they won't buy it anymore since MOS will be supported. Some of you make it sound like they're threatening the author physically or something. And no, I didn't wrotte a mail too.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 23 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Troels E on 14-Dec-2002 21:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (José):
Ok, maybe some made it sound worse than it really is but these people are still crazy to send those emails.

People should rather send an email to thank the author for making new software for the Amiga. I don't care if he does versions for other systems like windows or morphos, I'm just pleased to hear that an Amiga PPC version will be available.

I will defenitely give it a try when I get my (not yet ordered, not until OS4 is ready) AmigaOne-G4.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 24 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 14-Dec-2002 22:02 GMT
In reply to Comment 11 (catohagen):
Well, as MorphOS' and OS4's extensions seem similar, that shouldn't be a
problem, just change some API calls and some more tweaking and it's done.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 25 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 14-Dec-2002 22:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Alkemyst):
Your consiracy theories sicken me. There ARE people in the AOS camp that could
have made that... (same for the MOS camp of course).
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 26 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Loki on 14-Dec-2002 22:12 GMT
I think you people are over-reacting.

So what if he got a few bad emails from a few assholes! Who cares.

Did he mention the possible OS4 version when he anounced the MOS version?
If not then he was inviting AOS4 supporters to jump to conclusions and send hate mail. Trolls send hate mail. Non-Trolls would still send mail (but just asking him to support AOS4).

Most developers anounce all the platforms that will be supported in their initial product anouncement.

Loki
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 27 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 14-Dec-2002 22:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 26 (Loki):
http://www.ann.lu/detail.cgi?category=news&file=1036455185.msg

"Versions of Hollywood for MorphOS and AmigaOS4 and maybe also AROS are
planned."
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 28 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by KenH on 14-Dec-2002 22:33 GMT
It's good to see some commonality between the different groups. I think we would all agree that, on the whole, the majority of each group are decent people who would condemn such threats against anyone.
In the future it might be good to keep our similarities rather than our differences in mind.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 29 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 14-Dec-2002 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (José):
Are you José from Amiga.org?

The one who wrote his me2 under:

"Well, guess I won't be buying Hollywood afterall as I won't support any company that supports MorphOS"

Do you think that is better than mailing?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 30 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 14-Dec-2002 23:34 GMT
In reply to Comment 29 (Anonymous):
Insane!
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 31 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 14-Dec-2002 23:35 GMT
In reply to Comment 22 (José):
You didn't write an email, but WHAT do you have against MOS, so strong to stop
you from buying a product cause a MorphOS version is available?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 32 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 14-Dec-2002 23:40 GMT
In reply to Comment 17 (Nicholas Blachford):
>MOS will try and outdo AOS, AOS will try and outdo MOS.
>In doing so both MOS and AOS will improve, the result is a win-win for users on both sides.

dont forget you are in the mimic business... :)

AmigaOS is the orginal, whatever feature amigaos gets, you try copy because
of your clam of being amiga compatible...

Do you think AmigaOS coders change the whole plan because of one Morphos
feature ?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 33 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by DaveMcK on 14-Dec-2002 23:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 30 (takemehomegrandma):
Cutting his nose off to spite his face, if you ask me.

I'll probably get Hollywood at some stage - but only when I've some decent hardware and OS4 AND MorphOS. Hopefully he ignores these idiots who 'threatened' him. They should be grateful he's even coding!

Regards,
Dave.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 34 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 14-Dec-2002 23:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 32 (catohagen):
This is called competition. If there's a KILLER feature in MorphOS, OF COURSE
the OS4 team will try to rival it, and vise-versa.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 35 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 15-Dec-2002 00:59 GMT
In reply to Comment 34 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
no, why should they ? the OS4 team have their plan, and has to stick with it..

yes, morphos is competition, but so are linux,windows,mac...
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 36 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 15-Dec-2002 01:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 32 (catohagen):
>This is called competition. If there's a KILLER feature
>in MorphOS, OF COURSE the OS4 team will try to rival it,
>and vise-versa.

Exactly.

Ever wondered why windows suddenly started changing their looks after 5 years? Something to do with OS X maybe...

>dont forget you are in the mimic business... :)

Look at the spec of *any* modern computer OS, how many don't have the feature set of the original Amiga?

>AmigaOS is the orginal, whatever feature amigaos gets, you try copy
>because of your clam of being amiga compatible...

We do not claim to be "Amiga compatible".
We claim to be able to run Amiga Applications.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 37 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 15-Dec-2002 01:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (Anonymous):
>Ever wondered why windows suddenly started changing their looks after 5 years? Something to do with OS X maybe...

yes, many os'es try mimic other ideas :) i remember seeing some similar
aqua OS X buttons in early morphos screenshoots :)

forgot you name ?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 38 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 15-Dec-2002 01:11 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (Anonymous):
>Something to do with OS X maybe ?

http://www.stormloader.com/amiga/osnews/Grab2.jpg
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 39 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by catohagen on 15-Dec-2002 01:23 GMT
In reply to Comment 36 (Anonymous):
>Look at the spec of *any* modern computer OS, how many don't have the feature set of the original Amiga?

i would guess all of them *dont* have :

ppc.library - PowerUP compatibility layer
or
WOSEmu - WarpUP compatibility layer
or
Exec reimplementation
or
Built-in newicon support
or
Built-in OS 3.5 Glowicon support
or
ARexx port (optional)
or
Built-in wbstart.library
or
Goa - Full Warp3D emulation
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 40 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Nicholas Blachford on 15-Dec-2002 02:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 39 (catohagen):
> >Look at the spec of *any* modern computer OS, how many don't
> >have the feature set of the original Amiga?

>i would guess all of them *dont* have :

correct, for that fact does the *original* Amiga...

I was talking about more generic features such as pre-emptive multitasking, printer drivers in the OS not individual programs etc...
Everything has those.

The point being that if one OS adds a new feature others will also get it.
There's nothing strange or unusual, it's the same in all industries.

As for the list of features, well if you want to run Amiga programs you may as well do it properly...
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 41 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Dan_Boyd on 15-Dec-2002 08:16 GMT
In a market this small it would be *crazy* for any software developer to release their product exclusively for MOS, or exclusively for AOS4. The amount of work required for port an application between the two is relatively small compared to the effort to write the app in the first place (the APIs being so similar).

It would be better if everyone supported their favored platform by actually *buying* this software, and therefor also suppporting one of the few developers we have left.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 42 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 15-Dec-2002 08:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 35 (catohagen):
"No"? They already did that and will do it again. It's PERFECTLY normal.
If they had kept the original plan, OS4 would be nothing more than a 68k
emulator (take a look at Amiga Inc's "plan"). See? The plan changed at
least once. And don't forget that OS4 was out of question until Fleecy
saw MorphOS running. Yes, this IS competition and this is what will push
the development of both OSes harder. It's good.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 43 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Herwarn on 15-Dec-2002 08:55 GMT
In reply to Comment 42 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
> And don't forget that OS4 was out of question
> until Fleecy saw MorphOS running.

Alkis, how old are you? 14? 16?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 44 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Bladerunner on 15-Dec-2002 09:29 GMT
On the other Hand it could be somewhat funny (if the market where not so small)
If those guys have realized, that for example, FFS 2 is included in both OSes?
Or Mui... Its development is continued by "the Evil himself" Ralph Schmidt...and it will
be also on OS 4.0, all changes made on Mui must be included in the source dir, so every party benefits..

Come on guys! Write mails now to Hyperion you won`t buy OS 4.0 because they support MOS.
And you MOS Fans, write Mails to Genesi, you won`t buy MOS because they support OS 4.0

P.S.
Just before someone complain, don`t take it to serious ;-)
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 45 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Bladerunner on 15-Dec-2002 09:29 GMT
On the other Hand it could be somewhat funny (if the market where not so small)
If those guys have realized, that for example, FFS 2 is included in both OSes?
Or Mui... Its development is continued by "the Evil himself" Ralph Schmidt...and it will
be also on OS 4.0, all changes made on Mui must be included in the source dir, so every party benefits..

Come on guys! Write mails now to Hyperion you won`t buy OS 4.0 because they support MOS.
And you MOS Fans, write Mails to Genesi, you won`t buy MOS because they support OS 4.0

P.S.
Just before someone complain, don`t take it to serious ;-)
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 46 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 15-Dec-2002 09:34 GMT
In reply to Comment 43 (Herwarn):
I happen to know some stuff you don't. Like who actually showed off MorphOS
to Fleecy. Ask somebody else to get the answer and THEN ask me the same...
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 47 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by hgm on 15-Dec-2002 09:46 GMT
<get the update for free when AmigaOS 4 is finally available.>
That is optimistic. It should be "IF AmigaOS 4 is finally available."
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 48 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkemyst on 15-Dec-2002 10:27 GMT
In reply to Comment 47 (hgm):
"That is optimistic. It should be "IF AmigaOS 4 is finally available."

And what made you come to that conclusion ?
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 49 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Herwarn on 15-Dec-2002 10:38 GMT
In reply to Comment 46 (Alkis Tsapanidis):
> I happen to know some stuff you don't.

Well, big thanks to MorphOS team that I will have new AmigaOS. I'm grecful
to you guys. I think AmigaOS 4 package should include some backgrounds with butterfly
to commemorate this event.
Announcement: Hollywood for AmigaOS4 : Comment 50 of 90ANN.lu
Posted by Alkemyst on 15-Dec-2002 10:44 GMT
In reply to Comment 49 (Herwarn):
Why would they want todo that ?
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