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[News] Hollywood 1.5 status reportANN.lu
Posted on 11-Feb-2003 21:40 GMT by Andreas Falkenhahn (Edited on 2003-02-12 10:06:12 GMT by Christian Kemp)10 comments
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Here's a quick status report of the current Hollywood development. Version 1.5 is now going through beta testing and should be available by the end of February. Hollywood 1.5 will feature some major improvements. [Below is] an overview of the new features in Hollywood 1.5.
  • Full support for AHI (sound samples & music modules)
  • Multiple layers can be used now
  • Joystick support
  • Big improvements to the inbuilt undo system
  • FPS can be limited now (useful on Pegasos)
  • Introducing support for off-screen rendering
  • Even more of those cool 24-bit transition fx!
  • New flexible object moving system
  • Many other innovative improvements

Hollywood 1.5 will be made freely available for all owners of Hollywood 1.0.

Check http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/

Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 1 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Andreas Falkenhahn on 11-Feb-2003 20:41 GMT
I forgot:

Check <a href="http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/" target="_new">http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/</a> for more infos on Hollywood!
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 2 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 12-Feb-2003 04:40 GMT
THis might be a dumb question but does it have full AREXX support?
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 3 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Joël EHRET on 12-Feb-2003 05:57 GMT
I think that after the 1.5 release, you should add some gui so make your program more user friendly.
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 4 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 12-Feb-2003 08:45 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Joël EHRET):
A GUI is handy for simple jobs, but practically every multimedia
project that is at all complicated (in Scala, Flash, both Directors,
etc) is done with scripting.

AHI support is a big step forward.
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 5 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Cluke on 12-Feb-2003 09:03 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Andreas Falkenhahn):
Looks great! Although as someone else said, some sort of GUI would be nice, and dare we dream the impossible dream - Powerpoint compatibility! ;-)
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 6 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by JoannaK on 12-Feb-2003 09:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (Don Cox):
Ahi is essential for future proofing this and other softwares. There is extremely few things MOS and OS4 makers have agreed on but AHI-suppport is one of them. So for the program future, it's essential addition.

And yes.. some kind of Framerate-limitting can be good idea too :)
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 7 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Christoph Gutjahr on 12-Feb-2003 10:17 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Cluke):
>> and dare we dream the impossible dream
>> - Powerpoint compatibility! ;-)

Forget about this. Hollywood is written by one single coder - no chance that he'll ever have the ressources to implement something like this.

Besides, Hollywood is not "just" a PowerPoint/Scala clone. IMHO it's more of a BlitzBasic/Flash crossover.
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 8 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Christoph Gutjahr on 12-Feb-2003 10:20 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Anonymous):
>> THis might be a dumb question but does it have full AREXX support?

With Hollywood you compile standalone AmigaOS applications. These applications do not have an ARexx port.
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 9 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 12-Feb-2003 12:29 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Christoph Gutjahr):
"With Hollywood you compile standalone AmigaOS applications. These applications do not have an ARexx
port. "

But they could have, in principle, and this would make some of them
more useful.
Hollywood 1.5 status report : Comment 10 of 10ANN.lu
Posted by anonymous on 12-Feb-2003 15:43 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (Christoph Gutjahr):
>> - Powerpoint compatibility! ;-)

>Forget about this. Hollywood is written by one single coder
>- no chance that he'll ever have the ressources to implement
>something like this.

That's silly. Import/export filters are available as part of Open Office and they are excellent.

>Besides, Hollywood is not "just" a PowerPoint/Scala clone.

The choice is up to the author. The capability to support either format means greater flexibility and market share.
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