Archive : : Hollywood 5.2 released - 10th Anniversary Edition
Posted By: softwarefailure. on 2012/11/15 13:48:11
Exactly ten years ago today, Hollywood 1.0 was shipped to the first customers. Since then the software has grown to one of the largest Amiga programs and is now available for all major systems including the mobile platform Android. To celebrate the success story of Hollywood, version 5.2 has been released today for all existing customers of Hollywood. Hollywood 5.2 is a major update which includes several new features among the usual bug fixes. Read more for a brief overview of new features in 5.2.

Hollywood 5.2 is the first joint release of Hollywood for both desktop and mobile platforms. Users of the Android version can conveniently update to 5.2 via Google Play while users of the Amiga and Windows versions can download update archives (35 to 45 MB in size) free of charge from the official Hollywood portal.

Please note that Hollywood 5.2 is currently only available for existing customers and cannot be purchased at this time.

- video system is now completely platform-independent which means that Hollywood video plugins will work now on every system incl. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Android
- support for commodity hotkeys (Amiga)
- support for tray icons (Windows)
- extensions in the plugin interface
- own error handler can be defined
- support for multiple screens (Amiga)
- improved support for Android
- better support for animations using alphachannels

A complete list of changes can be found in the history section of the documentation.

 
  • Yokemate of Keyboards
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    That's cool. It also shows Andreas hasn't lost faith and interest in Hollywood. I hope he'll bring it back on sale soon, so more ppl can buy it.
    Albeit I am moaning about speed of hollywood from time to time it's also more than clear, that Hollywood is really a cool piece of software that actually helps gettig things done. If only a MUI plugin existed (well an MFC/Cocoa plugin for Windows/OS X would be also cool), then Hollywood programs would provide the familiar look and feel of other MorphOS programs.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Thank you Andreas for this free update, fantastic reason to buy it!
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    >> Please note that Hollywood 5.2 is currently only available for existing
    >> customers and cannot be purchased at this time.

    > Thank you Andreas for this free update, fantastic reason to buy it!

    ;-)
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    >> Please note that Hollywood 5.2 is currently only available for existing
    >> customers and cannot be purchased at this time.

    > Thank you Andreas for this free update, fantastic reason to buy it!

    ;-)


    I wish the author of Hollywood & Hollywood Designer, or someone close to the author, would let us all know what the reason is for him not being unable to sell Hollywood any longer is.

    There are several people who want to buy it now, but are unable and it is strange that no reason for shutting down the sales of Hollywood have been given.

    I applaud the author for continuing work on Hollywood, despite any problems that are preventing him from being able to sell to new users.
    MorphOS - The best Next Gen Amiga choice.
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  • Andreas_Wolf
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    > not being unable

    ;-)
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    Really cool locking and enjoyable game made with with Hollywood: http://gemz.a-mc.biz/
    regards
    eliot
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