Software News : Hollywood 2.5 out & announcement of Hollywood Designer 2.0
posted by softwarefailure on 9-Mar-2007 15:01:04 (5041 reads)
Airsoft Softwair are proud to annouce the immediate availability of Hollywood 2.5. This is a major update which brings along many new features and general improvements over Hollywood 2.0.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of new features in Hollywood 2.5:
* Hollywood has full ARexx support now * Create your own ARexx applications with Hollywood! * Completely new text engine with cool new features * Support for on-the-fly text formatting like HTML * Support for new text styles (bordered & shadowed text) * Scheduler completely rewritten: Now about 15% faster! * Graphics primitives support anti-aliasing now * All graphics forms can be drawn with rotation * New edge and shadow drawing styles * Support for thick lines and thick shape outlines * Hollywood can export graphics as PNG with alpha channel now * Raw alpha channel data can be accessed now * Support for new sound streaming formats * Animations with multiple palettes are now supported * New lightning speed gfx driver for AROS - this is as fast as it gets! * Full control over DOS IO modes * Cool new example programs * Standard library set encompasses almost 400 functions now! * Ready for Hollywood Designer 2.0! * Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood 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 comes on a CD-ROM that contains versions for all Amiga compatible platforms: There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS3 (m68k), WarpOS (ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4 (ppc) and even AROS (i386). A download version is also offered. 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 1.x or Hollywood 2.0, you can buy a discounted upgrade version.
Hollywood is the ultimate bridge between all the different AmigaOS compatible platforms! With Hollywood, you can save programs for all those platforms. You do not have to have AmigaOS4 or AROS, you can save programs for these platforms also from your AmigaOS3 installation! Only Hollywood makes it possible. If you want to learn more about Hollywood, please visit the Hollywood product information which also contains a full feature list of Hollywood.
Finally, Hollywood 2.5 is ready for the brand-new Hollywood Designer 2.0, a massive update which will be released in a few days and will take presentation editing software on the Amiga platform to a whole new level. You can already order Hollywood Designer 2.0 now and it will be delivered to you as soon as it is released. In fact, you can save some money if you buy Hollywood 2.5 and Hollywood Designer 2.0 together; just have a look at the order page for available product bundles. Hollywood Designer 2.0 is also available in a download and CD-ROM version.
Join the Multimedia revolution and get your personal copy of Hollywood 2.5 now!
My question is...what does a person do when he bought the version 1.9? Would he be able to upgrade for free or does the person have to pay for the new version as well?
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Re: Hollywood 2.5 out & announcement of Hollywood Designer 2 Posted on 9-Mar-2007 23:17:01
My question is...what does a person do when he bought the version 1.9? Would he be able to upgrade for free or does the person have to pay for the new version as well?
It is not a free update. There is a lot of functionalty added, so not just a bugfix release.
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I have Hollywood pack last 5 month. Amazing pack!!! But my order will wait new version. In my country BankTransfer cost about 50 euros more (Upgrade 59e + 50e BankTransfer=110e) , and I can't use PayPal. That to much to pay every 5 month. Sorry, but I hard working whole month for about 700 euros.
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Hans
Re: Hollywood 2.5 out & announcement of Hollywood Designer 2 Posted on 12-Mar-2007 17:48:58
¤50 just for a bank transfer? That's so expensive! There's got to be a better way for you to pay. It's not fair if you have to pay almost double what everyone else pays. What about using a credit-card? It's sad that PayPal isn't available in your country.
According to PayPal Worldwide you ARE able to set up a PayPal account in Croatia and send money to other PayPal users. However you cannot receive any money.
Simply attach your credit-card to your new PayPal account and there you go!
Ok. I am ALL FOR a New SCALA clone for Amga or any new amazing Multimedia packages if we even get one at all. I am an Avid SCALA fan if you can't tell by my name
But from my many years in experience with the Amiga.......... SCALA was not Marketed correctly or even nearly enough. Even though it was a Superb package and a superb interface. All the others didnt even come close in ease of use.
One product comes to mind: The Director which was a scripting language.
In all seriousness............In todays time in the year 2007.........who wants to waste time writing scripts? Im not asking in a vulgar way.........I am just saying............its like selling BSD linux to a world of Windows Users and expecting them to understand how to understand UNIX.
I really really stress that you need to include both Packages as One Product! and then change the name. (im fine if you decide to keep it) its just that it implies something else.
But my main point is. Each package alone is practically useless to most people without the other.....and by most people I mean the common user.
Being that the Amiga community is so small........you want potentially every Amiga user to buy Hollywood.
Take for instance MediaPOINT.............a Really really really good competition to SCALA. but the Interface is so wacked out and crazy, that I cannot get into it comfortably even though I own a copy of the CD.........it turns me off really badly.
PowerPoint is another example of a horrible interface. People use it because its what the main industry uses because thats all they know.
we can learn alot from SCALA and MediaPOINT and even Can DO 3.0................ SCALA will always win between the 3 just because of the ease of use and how quickly and naturally one can put a presentation together.
Nevertheless I have high interests in Hollywood and Hollywood Designer.
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