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Software News : Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for purchase
Posted by softwarefailure on 2013/7/7 10:06:36 (2137 reads) News by the same author
Software News

Airsoft Softwair is happy to announce the immediate availability of Hollywood 5.3. Version 5.3 is a major update which includes several new features as well as important bug fixes.

Most new functionality is introduced in the Android version which comes with a fully native Java-based GUI now, supports many new commands from the desktop versions and has hardware-accelerated scaling now. But also the desktop versions of Hollywood have improved with release 5.3. Here is a brief overview of new features in 5.3:

- major improvements in the Android version: Hollywood uses a native Java-based GUI now and supports many new commands from the desktop version now (new in v5.3 are support for requester functions, clipboard, running programs, etc.)
- intelligent new refresh technology that enhances performance on single-refresh based systems and with autoscaled scripts
- accelerated file I/O in the Amiga version through the use of custom buffered I/O
- Android version offers hardware-supported autoscaling now which leads to a great speed boost if supported by the device (use the Android options menu to enable autoscaling)
- support for multi-touch events and fixed orientation displays on Android
- displays can now be hidden from the taskbar (Win32)
- support for alphachannel copy & paste (Win32)
- functions for querying information about public screens and grabbing them to a brush (Amiga)
- support for 32bit mouse pointers on AROS
- new functions to deal with plugins from the script
- support for new IFF ANIM formats: ANIM7, ANIM8, ANIM16, and ANIM32 (both interlaced and standard IFF ANIM16 and IFF ANIM32 are supported; deinterlacing method can be configured)
- scripts can now be edited directly from the Amiga GUI
- support for subsong handling in plugins
- *.hwa files can be started directly from other apps in Android now (Hollywood acts as a viewer then)
- various other new features and bug fixes

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

Hollywood 5.3 is a joint release of Hollywood for both desktop and mobile platforms. Users of the Android version can conveniently update to 5.3 via Google Play while users of the Amiga and Windows versions can download update archives (35 to 50 MB in size) free of charge from the official Hollywood portal.

Please note that Hollywood 5.3 is currently only available for existing customers and cannot be purchased at this time but here is some good news for all people planning to buy Hollywood: Both Hollywood and Hollywood Designer will soon be available for purchase from Airsoft Softwair again.


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TSK
Published: 2013/7/7 10:23  Updated: 2013/7/7 10:23
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Joined: 02/23/2007
From: Finland, the land of Santa, sauna, sisu and salmiakki
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 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Congrats ! Great news !

Which version of Hollywood is needed to get this free update ?
ddni
Published: 2013/7/7 10:45  Updated: 2013/7/7 10:45
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Joined: 04/10/2008
From: Northern Ireland
Comments: 1166
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Good news. Will you be able to explain why there was a block on it being sold?
Templario
Published: 2013/7/7 10:59  Updated: 2013/7/7 10:59
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Joined: 03/28/2010
From: Palencia-Spain
Comments: 797
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Good news, now is time to save our money to buy the updates!
lazi
Published: 2013/7/7 11:18  Updated: 2013/7/7 11:18
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Joined: 11/27/2006
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Comments: 269
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Quote:
Which version of Hollywood is needed to get this free update ?


AFAIK 5.2

5.1 and 5.2 was free updates, so you have to have 5.0 to use 5.3.
Joeled
Published: 2013/7/7 11:33  Updated: 2013/7/7 11:33
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Joined: 10/29/2008
From: Uppsala, Sweden
Comments: 828
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Great news! Will buy it when its available.
nubechecorre
Published: 2013/7/7 11:47  Updated: 2013/7/7 11:47
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Joined: 11/24/2006
From: Sanremo
Comments: 1945
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
great! :)
Kicko
Published: 2013/7/7 11:55  Updated: 2013/7/7 11:55
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Joined: 10/25/2007
From: Gothenburg / Sweden
Comments: 1175
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Nice, will be avaible again :)
eliyahu
Published: 2013/7/7 12:35  Updated: 2013/7/7 12:35
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Joined: 06/17/2010
From: Waterbury, Connecticut (USA)
Comments: 451
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
outstanding! i missed out on purchasing hollywood+designer before andreas closed shop. i'm very pleased to see i'll soon get the chance to finally acquire hollywood. i'm rather tired of powerpoint.

-- eliyahu
328gts
Published: 2013/7/7 13:44  Updated: 2013/7/7 13:44
Home away from home
Joined: 07/07/2009
From: Man Cave, Canada
Comments: 3361
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
WoW WoW Thanks Andreas!!! more great news in Amiga land
logicalheart
Published: 2013/7/8 8:36  Updated: 2013/7/8 8:36
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Joined: 07/14/2009
From: Utah, USA
Comments: 239
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Hooray! Looking forward to buying.
djrikki
Published: 2013/7/8 16:16  Updated: 2013/7/8 16:17
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Joined: 05/16/2010
From: Grimsby, UK
Comments: 950
 Re: Hollywood 5.3 released & soon available again for pur...
Excellent news... although for me its complaining I do not have 5.2 installed when clearly I do.. so doh!

Plus I do know where/if I have a Hollywood 5.iso backed-up anywhere hmmm.
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