Hollywood 6.0 has been released. Since I’m not so sure most of you know what it is, here’s the official description.
Hollywood is a multimedia-oriented programming language that can be used to create graphical applications very easily. It was designed with the paradigm to make software creation as easy as possible in mind. Thus, Hollywood is suited for beginners and advanced users alike. Hollywood comes with an extensive function library (encompassing almost 700 different commands) that simplifies the creation of 2D games, presentations, and applications, to a great extent. It has been in development since 2002 and hence is today a very mature and stable software package.
I mostly knew what it was because I think (at least at one point in time) it was installed in Amikit. They even still support AmigaOS 3.x
So 1996 called and wanted its GUI designer back: http://www.hollywood-mal.com/img/shotde06.png
That’s one dated product…
That still runs on dated hardware and a dated OS. Your problem is?
You don’t have to use it.
Not going to.
Good. Your type isn’t desired!
Well, the guy made a fair point in my opinion. When an application advertises itself as a “multimedia” application, the last thing I expect is something that looks like PowerPoint 97.
Looks are subjective. GIMP for example is butt ugly but it does the job well and doesn’t stop folk from using it. Not everything has to look like OSX or Windows 8 you know?
Well, if you want to go down that path :
http://www.jahshaka.com/
http://www.openmovieeditor.org/
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Hollywood is a language system for doing programs easier. Amiga users loves it and you should respect that. There is nothing on the Amiga that looks like PowerPoint design. Also! AmigaOS is one of the most flexible OS’s in the world, which means you can justify as you want to. So people get totally wrong impression and many got lack of knowledge of AmigaOS. Media and Bill Gates have always put Amiga on the hate list. Do you know why? Because Microsoft sold BASIC license to Commodore very cheap! and because of this, he have hated Amiga so much.. so when Gateway 2000 had Amiga, he demanded Gateway 2000 to stop supporting Amiga.
AmigaOS is something different than Windows or OSX or Linux. The world should know this.
My apologies, I didn’t know that Hollywood was also an Amiga app. Makes sense there are some limitations, given the age of the platform.
What sort of limitations? Do you think that Amiga was just Amiga 500 or what? I am using AmigaOS daily on my PowerMac G5 machine. I love it and I use it for writing this to you. There are limitations in any operating systems. All have their positive and negative sides, but to say its limited its very provocative.
The Amiga platform is now more alive than ever before. Yes, we have AmiStore, we have Aminet (which was years
ahead of AppStore) and we have lightning fast operating system. AmigaOS might be small (300MB in size) and require very little mem… but it doesnt mean that the platform got limitations. Its only on your mind that it is. AmigaOS got webkit browser with html5 support, with flash support , with SSL support+++ AmigaOS got great e-mail apps like YAM and SimpleMail. AmigaOS got its own twitter apps. AmigaOS got more audio players to choose from than OSX. AmigaOS boots in 5-7 seconds even on a 50MHz cpu. AmigaOS have way better memcard support than both OSX and Windows… supporting way more filesystems and can create Amiga HDs with an USB reader+++ the platform got nice DTP programs, graphical programs which is Amiga only.
You have to learn that AmigaOS is fully alive, its just that it got its own coders and its own programs which is as good as Adobe products just to mention.
Why so negative towards AmigaOS? I use it for daily work and I love it. Others also uses AmigaOS everyday. Please respect it.
You run AmigaOS on a Powermac G5?
Yes. I call MorphOS for AmigaOS. Otherwise people gets confused a lot. MorphOS runs MUI4, AHI, Classact, Libs, Devs etc.. same as AmigaOS4 and AmigaOS3. It runs the very same programs at 68k level as AmigaOS4. It is supported and mentioned by A-EON in all of their public commercials. Aminet, Amigaworld, Amiga.org, Amiga-news.de etc all mentions all AmigaOS flavours.
I’m a hard core MorphOS user (got a dedicared blog and everything) and I think calling MorphOS AmigaOS is very confusing because there exist both AmigaOS 1.0-3.9 and also AmigaOS 4.x.
MorphOS works with a lot of PPC macs. No AmigaOS does.
No its not. MorphOS is on all Amiga sites. It runs on amigaos filesystems. it supports amigaos icons, newicons, glowicons+++ it supports AHI and MUI. It runs 68k apps which can use 68k libs or PPC libs. You can transform MorphOS to AmigaOS 3.9 if you want. MorphOS calls Ambient which is Workbench.. and when I do a version, it says:
Ram Disk:> version full
MorphOS 3.7, Ambient 1.43, Kickstart 51.39
The name is only the difference. The marked is the same. So its damn correct to say that it is AmigaOS Compatible and that it is a AmigaOS. Because saying that MorphOS is MorphOS will make people not understand what it is at all. All these discussions makes people not connect with the Amiga platform. Do we want that or do we want people to use all the flavours of the Amiga NG platforms!?
Dude, I know all that. The problem isn’t what the OS is capable of, but the fact that there already is an OS called AmigaOS 4 out there capable of pretty much the same stuff. It’s like wanting to call every car a Toyota. It’s damn more confusing than clarifying.
If people can’t take the effort to learn the slightest about what MorphOS is, then you are already speaking to the wrong crowd anyway.
I love AmigaOs, though one could argue how AmigaOS is anything post 3.9… However saying that something is limited should not be taken as disrespect nor as negative sentiment. Afaik AmigaOS does not handle tens of gigs of RAM, nor terabytes of disc space, nor several processor cores,nor Java. I do not care about boot time, when my computer wakes up in matter of seconds with every application running and it does this for months without a single crash.
I love my AmigaOS, but it does not mean I don’t admit its limitations.
I agree. I’m surprised the guy didn’t write “and we can run Quake too!”
I can mention Amiga games like Foundation, Napalm, WipeOut 2097 (Amiga Version), MYST (Amiga 68k version) to just name a few games. Then we have Deluxe Paint 5, Personal Paint, Digi Booster PRO, TVPaint, PageStream, iBrowse, Aweb etc to name a few Amiga 68k programs.
Well, he meant that it still feels like it is 1995…
Myst? Seriously?
Yes, but who is _impressed_ by that?
All-in-all don’t take these things as offensive. The state of Amiga is quite good in comparison to that it does not have corporate backing, and for a decade it was available only a selected few hardware. Since both Aros and WinUAE matured, we do not really have any limit for preserving it to the future, and I am sure, even for 10 years from now there are going to be software released for it. Don’t look over its limitations, but embrace them, and be happy that you can do so many things even with those limitations in place.
Dude, chill.. I had no intention to bash your precious operating system. No need to be so tense.
All this stuff it ‘got’. It didn’t get them , it ‘has’ them.
I am sure the o/s is rather good but it didn’t go out and get anything.
hahahahahaha
oh my, you’re serious? that’s just… sad. but at least we know who’s our resident BAF ( http://www.osnews.com/thread?605175 )
Right, because other IDEs are totally sexy and crazy hot.
Frequently? Yes.
BeIDE was!
Yes, my favorite IDE (which is PyCharm) is quite a sexy beast 🙂
Hmmm, which is why I said looks are subjective. It doesn’t appeal to me much at all, but if it does the job it’s made for then great stuff, that’s what counts!
Outside GNU/Linux world, certainly yes.
Most modern IDE’s are quite sexy, hot and functional. Of course, they don’t run on AmigaOS. For good reasons.
It’s kind of an awful BASIC. With a kind of so-so but dated IDE. It is “compiled”, in so much as the scripts are not interpreted from source at runtime, they seem to be run in a VM of some description. It seems like it’s very niche. I’d, peronally, play with it under Amiga OS, but I’d never use it under any other OS as it seems painful at best and completely out dated. I’d rather use something compiled like Lazarus with Object Pascal rather than some odd little dialect of BASIC.
Can you run Object Pascal/Lazarus GUI apps in obscure platforms like AmigaOS or MorphOS without changing a single line of code???
I think you are missing the point of Hollywood.
No idea. But you can certainly do that across Windows, Mac, BSD/LINUX with X. Amiga is extremely niche.
Not really, because it seems like anything it can do is fairly uninteresting to me.
Developers are Ruining the Grand Canyon!
OMG! This this is a Tech site! Environmental activism doesn’t belong here! Boo!
Hollywood 6.0 Programming Language Released!
OMG! This is stupid! And old! And Ugly! Amiga is dead! Boo!
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You just can’t win, Thom.
Well, you know, some people just have nothing much constructive to say. That sum up their whole life, in fact. You should just pity them.