Software : : Hollywood 4.8 now with Linux support!
Posted By: softwarefailure. on 2011/4/25 6:23:24
Airsoft Softwair is happy to annouce a special Easter egg for the Amiga community: Hollywood 4.8 is out now! This update contains mostly bug fixes and one great new feature requested by many people: Hollywood is now able to compile executables for Linux systems! With the ability of compiling for Linux systems Hollywood finally comes full circle because it now supports all major desktop operating systems. All in all, Hollywood can create programs for nine different platforms now: MorphOS, AROS, AmigaOS 3, AmigaOS 4, WarpOS, Windows, Mac OS X (Intel), Mac OS X (PowerPC), and Linux (Intel). A totally unique feature in the Amiga world!

Great care was taken to make Hollywood compiled executables as portable as possible across the many different Linux distros. Package dependencies were kept down to an absolute minimum: Only plain X11 - which should be present on any Linux system - is required by Hollywood executables! All other dependencies like gtk and ALSA for sound output are entirely optional: If they are installed, Hollywood will use them, if not, Hollywood will just run without them. Thus, Hollywood compiled executables will usually run straight out of the box on most common Linux distros. You definitely won't have to install dozens of packages before being able to run Hollywood executables!

Please visit the Airsoft Softwair webpage for screenshots of Hollywood 4.8 running on Gentoo (KDE), Ubuntu (Gnome), Fedora (Gnome), openSUSE (KDE) and the brand-new GNOME 3.

Hollywood 4.8 is Airsoft Softwair's ultimate Multimedia experience and a must-have for every Amiga user who wants to use the full power that is in his machine. Hollywood is available on a CD-ROM and as a download version. If you order the download version, you will have to download an ISO image which you need to burn on CD-R then. If you already own Hollywood, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. Please visit the Airsoft Softwair webpage for more information.
 
  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    This is absolutely amazing! Linux is so diverse, and yet your application is able to do complex multimedia stuff regardless of the host's system flavour. I don't know of any other system that goes that far.

    Next? Hollywood mobile, of course! ;-)
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  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    amigadave
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    Quote:

    This is absolutely amazing! Linux is so diverse, and yet your application is able to do complex multimedia stuff regardless of the host's system flavour. I don't know of any other system that goes that far.

    Next? Hollywood mobile, of course! ;-)


    I agree that the flexibility and number of platforms that Hollywood works on is amazing. It is a shame that PPC Linux will not be supported though, as most/many MorphOS users also are running MacOSX and Linux on their G4 Mac systems.

    The reason for NOT supporting PPC Linux is that there is not enough demand to make it worthwhile effort, but that does not make sense to me, as 100% of the MorphOS users are running on PPC, so those users are the same in number as the ones likely to use a PPC version of Linux. And, there are probably still many thousands, if not tens of thousands of PPC Linux users world wide.

    Voice your opinion to the Hollywood creators if you think they should add PPC Linux support.

    I vote yes!
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  • Andreas_Wolf
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    > 100% of the MorphOS users are running on PPC, so those users are
    > the same in number as the ones likely to use a PPC version of Linux.

    Not every MorphOS user has a second OS on his MorphOS machine. And of those who have some have Linux and some (like me) have OSX.
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    Quote:

    > 100% of the MorphOS users are running on PPC, so those users are
    > the same in number as the ones likely to use a PPC version of Linux.

    Not every MorphOS user has a second OS on his MorphOS machine. And of those who have some have Linux and some (like me) have OSX.


    Yes, but 100% of all MorphOS users are potential Linux PPC users on their MorphOS hardware, while 0% of that same hardware will run Linux x86, plus there are probably thousands, if not tens of thousands of non-MorphOS users that still run Linux PPC around the world. Point is that there are more Linux PPC users worldwide than MorphOS users, so if Hollywood developers are going to support MorphOS2.x/AmigaOS4.x/AROS, why not also support Linux PPC?
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  • Andreas_Wolf
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    > 100% of all MorphOS users are potential Linux PPC users

    Yes, no objection to that, but "potential user" has another meaning than "likely to use" (that's what I objected to) as far as I being not a native English speaker can tell.
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    I just noticed this also works with OS/2, very cool. has it been tested at all against eComstation 2.0? or the new 2.1? Glad it's on linux now too. Keep up the great work :)
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