I have been looking forward to the day when I could announce this release with folks. I have followed this software developer for a long time.. They are a good group of people with a great idea…

A Cross Platform Presentation system from Airsoft Softwair…

Windows, Mac, Amiga, Alternates

Hollywood Designer is the high-end WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) presentation editing software for AmigaOS and compatible operating systems. You can create amazing presentations with just a few clicks and they will be shown with Hollywood then. You can also save your presentations as stand-alone executable for AmigaOS3, WarpOS, MorphOS, AmigaOS4, AROS, Windows, and Mac OS X (Intel as well as PowerPC, requires at least Mac OS X 10.4). All data files and all fonts that your presentation uses can be automatically linked into this executable so that you have your whole project in just a single program file which you can then distribute via the Internet or on a USB flash drive, for instance. Alternatively, presentations can also be saved as AVI videos.

Hollywood

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 about 500 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.

One of the highlights of Hollywood is its inbuilt cross-compiler which can be used to deploy software on many different platforms without having to change a single line of the code. The cross-compiler can compile for all platforms from any platform Hollywood is running on. For instance, you can compile Mac OS X application bundles using the Windows version of Hollywood.

Hollywood is a light-weight, but still powerful programming language that is just about two megabytes in size and does not require any external components. Hence, it is ideal for creating programs which run right out of the box. In fact, Hollywood programs will run perfectly from an USB flash drive without any prior installation whatsoever. The following platform architectures are currently supported by Hollywood:

• AmigaOS 3 (m68k)
• AmigaOS 4 (ppc)
• AROS (i386)
• Mac OS X (i386)^*
• Mac OS X (ppc)^*
• MorphOS (ppc)
• WarpOS (m68k/ppc)
• Windows (i386)

Malibu

Malibu is a plugin for Hollywood which contains an import filter for Scala presentations. As soon as Malibu is installed, Hollywood will suddenly be able to show Scala presentations or compile them.

With Malibu it is now possible for the first time to display Scala presentations on Workbench screen or on your own public screen. Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application layer everything will be first converted to 24-bit and then displayed. In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss of color information.

Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala versions up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version of Scala. Emulation is done by the elCapitan microkernel which tries to achieve the best performance possible on the used system. For example, the next page is already calculated while the current page is on the display. Complex transition effects can also be pre-calculated and then displayed smoothly.

Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real Multimedia wonder. There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala. Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with Scala knows what powers it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is very hard coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it does not run on graphics boards and also has some other major problems with today's Amiga systems. For many years all sorts of users complained that there is no Scala that runs RTG compatible. This time is over now. Scala revives with the Malibu plugin: On the Workbench? Of course. In 24-bit? You can bet your life on that. Always RTG conform? Absolutely.

Hollywood’s Scala Support

• All Scala versions up to InfoChannel 500 are supported
• Margin settings and tabulators are respected
• Scala variables can be used
• Buttons and events are emulated
• Almost complete emulation of Scala command set
• Scala presentations can be compiled
• Emulation can be configured in detail
• Complete independent from environment; does not matter if Cgfx, P96, AGA, ECS or OCS is active
• Absolutely system friendly