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NEWS
Hollywood 5: Infinity Out Now!
After two years of development, Airsoft Software is proud to
announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 5: Infinity
for AmigaOS and compatibles and Microsoft Windows. This is
a massive update which boasts over 120 new functions in
comparison to Hollywood 4.8 and brings along many new
features and general improvements. Highlights include the
ability to play video streams, full Internet and network support
(you could even run a server with Hollywood now!), support
for real vector graphics and vector image formats like SVG,
hardware accelerated double-buffering, inbuilt synthesizer
functions and much much more.
Hollywood 5: Infinity is undoubtedly the most advanced Amiga
multimedia application and on Windows, it is a fresh Indie
alternative to bloated authoring systems that need tons of
DLLs, memory, and hard-drive space. Hollywood is highly
stable, extremely easy to use and flexible, and used by many
creative people around the globe. A totally unique feature is
the ability to cross-compile native executables for many
different platforms including: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS,
MorphOS, AROS (x86), Windows (x86 & PPC), and Linux (x86 &
PPC).
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 5:
-Video playback support
- Full Internet and network support
- Support for vector images like SVG
- Real vector graphics can now be used (Bézier curves etc.)
- Tons of new image manipulating functions (blur, sharpen,
gamma, oil paint...)
- Hardware accelerated double-buffering for 500% faster
drawing
- Inbuilt synthesizer for generating sounds on-the-fly
- Many functions for brush distortion (perspective, arc, polar...)
- New requester functions (font, colour, lister...)
- Hollywood can now compile for PowerPC Linux too!
- Many new functions for dealing with samples
- Great improvements to the layers system
- Real drop shadow and border support for layers
- Over 20 image filters that can be applied to layers
- Hardware accelerated image transformations
- Real time calculated effects for layers with filters
- New gradient types (radial, conical and multicolour)
- IPC functions for talking to other programs
- Platform independent localization support
- FPU support for 68k Amigas (improves speed dramatically
also on WinUAE!)
- Platform independent pattern matching
- Many new utility functions (MD5 checksum, string functions
etc.)
- Cross-platform public plugin interface for 3rd party
extensions
- More than 500kb of new documentation
- Manual is also available as a professionally typeset PDF now
(over 700 pages!)
- 14 new example scripts (over 80 in total)
- Standard library set encompasses over 600 functions now!
- Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 5: Infinity is the ultimate Multimedia experience
and a must-have for all creative people. Hollywood is available
on a CD-ROM and as a download version for AmigaOS
compatible systems and for Microsoft Windows. The CD-ROM
version is delivered in a nice Digipak (see photo). 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.
Customers, who have bought Hollywood 4.8 after January 1st,
2012, can apply for a free upgrade. Screenshots of Hollywood
5 are available on the Airsoft Software homepage.
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different
AmigaOS compatible platforms and the other three modern
desktop systems, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux! With
Hollywood, you can save programs for all those platforms. You
do not have to own AmigaOS4 or AROS, you can save
programs for these platforms also from your AmigaOS3
installation! You do not need to have Mac OS X, you can still
compile your programs for it using your AmigaOS or MorphOS
installation. Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to
learn more about Hollywood, please visit the official
Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ which
also has a forum for all questions concerning Hollywood or the
Airsoft Software homepage http://www.airsoftsoftwair.com/
All this makes Hollywood The Cross-Platform Multimedia
Application Layer. Join the Multimedia revolution and get your
personal copy of Hollywood 5: Infinity now!