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Archive 04/2004


14.Apr.2004
Andreas Falkenhahn (e-mail)


Hollywood Designer 1.0 released
After a long development time, Hollywood Designer 1.0 is now available and can be ordered on the Airsoft Softwair homepage. Hollywood Designer is a high-end presentation software that creates together with Hollywood 1.9 the ultimate Multimedia suite for your Amiga or Pegasos.


About Hollywood Designer:

Hollywood Designer is a state-of-the-art WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor for presentations. 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 executables for AmigaOS, WarpOS and MorphOS. Additionally, your presentations can be saved as Hollywood scripts. Pages can be exported as single pictures too so that you can e.g. embed them in a HTML page. The program makes project management very easy by organizing all your project files in one directory which you can administrate with the inbuilt data manager. If you create a new project with Hollywood Designer, it will create a whole environment for your work complete with icons, drawers and info files. It just can't get any easier!

Hollywood Designer has everything you would expect from a modern multimedia application: Many colorful icons, images and toolbars, extensive online help system, undo/redo, context menus, recent menu, clipboard usage, keyboard control and a completely localized interface. It uses a page-pased presentation concept, which means that your project consists of as many pages as you want and each page consists of as many objects as you want. Objects are for example texts, animations, brushes and graphics forms. It has a powerful layout window where you can easily drag all objects around with the mouse, change the look of your pages and modify the objects attributes. Everything is implemented in a WYSIWYG way.

The program supports bitmap, color, intelli and truetype fonts for your texts. You can edit your text objects by using the powerful integrated text editor or you can import texts from external files into Hollywood Designer. Clipboard text import and export is also supported of course. There are many text formatting possibilities like bold, italic, underlined, shadow and outline text which can be used. Of course the shadow and outline style can be configured to fit your needs. You can also specify the text alignment (left, right or centered).

You can use brushes and animations to create absolutely unique presentations. 24-bit transparency is supported for both types. You can also scale brushes to your desired size. Hollywood Designer can insert simple graphics forms into your presentations like rectangles, ellipses and lines. You can configure the shadow and border settings of these objects as well as some other attributes like round edges for rectangles and line thickness. You can choose colors from a pre-defined palette of popular colors or you can mix your own colors in the powerful color manager. Hollywood Designer is a complete 24-bit application that can display every single color of the 16.7 million possible colors.

Every object and every page can be displayed with a transition effect. You can choose from a massive palette of over 150 different transition effects which are partly very impressive. You can use cool fly-on effects for your objects like sine wave fly-on, curved fly-on or bounce fly-on. You can also remove your objects from the display with transition effects! Objects and pages can be used to assure the correct timing of your presentation which is precise in milliseconds.

Hollywood Designer can play sound samples and Protracker modules when a page or an object is displayed. You can modify the pitch value, volume, panning and loop settings of sound samples. Samples are loaded through datatypes so that you can use almost every format you want, 8 or 16-bit, mono or stereo. Hollywood Designer supports them all. Additionally full channel mixing is supported which means that you can play as many sound samples as you want at the same time. And also Protracker modules can be played at the same time as sound samples. Audio support is implemented fully retargetable through AHI.

You can also use the program to create interactive presentations, e.g. you can add menus to your presentation that query user input and react on it. This allows you to create even complete multimedia applications like front-ends or disk magazines. Every object can be used as a button that monitors several events like mouse over, left mouse or right mouse click. If an event occurs, you can define many actions to take, e.g. show/hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, switch page, quit presentation and more.

Advanced users who are familiar with the Hollywood script language can also embed their own Hollywood code in the presentation. Every object and every page has the option to execute custom Hollywood code to make the presentation even more unique. Hollywood code can be easily edited within Hollywood Designer and there are such helpful tools like syntax checking, online reference and import/export of code.

Your presentation can be displayed in a window on Workbench/Ambient or on a full screen for a very noble look of your work! You can configure every detail of the background frame of your presentation. You can use a background pattern, background color, gradient, an image or even everything together! Presentations can be configured to loop after they have reached the end and they can also be started in mute mode without sound output. Hollywood Designer is just the ideal tool for all your presentation needs on your Amiga or Pegasos.

Hollywood Designer is a modern application that requires a modern system to work best. A graphics board is strongly recommended as well as much memory. You should have at least 32 megabytes of free memory. For users with little memory, there is a low-end setting which will use less resources than the normal version does. Additionally you will require Hollywood 1.9. Hollywood Designer comes on a CD-ROM together with example presentations and an extensive documentation which explains every part of the program. The program is really easy to use. Most things are self-explaining and for the rest you have the documentation. Everyone can create stunning presentations now!

The program has direct support for CyberGraphX and Picasso96 as well as for AHI. There are versions for AmigaOS Classic and for MorphOS (PPC native). The program was successfully tested on AmigaOS Classic, MorphOS 1.4, WinUAE and Amithlon. An OS4 version is planned to be available as soon as the operating system is available. Hollywood Designer is written in a OS friendly way and should run on every Amiga compatible system. Get creative now with Hollywood Designer!


Features:

General:
  • State-of-the-art GUI allows you to design your presentations
  • Uses the popular page-based presentation concept
  • Create presentations with a few clicks
  • Easy to use layout part which allows you to drag objects around
  • Object, page and color manager are very useful tools to manage your project
  • Modern interface design with many colorful icons, toolbars and big images
  • Fully WYSIWYG compliant
  • Support for undo/redo and clipboard usage
  • Extensive online help interface for all dialogs
  • Hollywood Designer is completely localized
  • Many context menus for easy access to all popular functions
  • Modern project management with a data manager to organize your project files
  • Save your presentations as AmigaOS, WarpOS or MorphOS native executable!
  • Every presentation can also be saved as a Hollywood script
  • Fully keyboard controllable
  • Presentations can be shown in window and full screen mode
Pages & Objects:
  • Objects are brushes, animations, rectangles, ellipses, lines or texts
  • Each object can have a configurable shadow and border
  • Every object can play sounds and can execute timing options
  • All objects can be used as buttons to catch events
  • Objects can be displayed and removed with a transition effect
  • Every object has its own layer and can appear behind other objects
  • Objects can also execute your own custom Hollywood code (for advanced users)
  • Objects can also be hidden and grouped with the page background
  • Full 24-bit transparency support for brushes and animations
  • You can use color, bitmap, intelli and truetype fonts
  • Different styles are supported for every font type
  • Over 150 transition effects can be used for all objects and pages
  • Graphics can be scaled to any size
  • Pages can have a gradient, image, color or texture background
  • Pages can be exported as single pictures too
  • All graphics are loaded through datatypes
  • Page and object positions can easily be changed
  • Rectangles with round edges and thick lines can be used
  • Cool fly-on effects with sine wave, curves, bounces, etc.
Sound:
  • Objects and pages can play sound samples and Protracker modules
  • You can adjust the pitch, volume, panning and looping of samples
  • Audio playback fully retargetable through AHI
  • Sound samples are loaded through datatypes
  • Support for 8 and 16-bit samples
  • You can play virtually any number of samples at the same time
  • Sample size is not limited
Interactive presentations:
  • Every object can act as a button so you can create interactive presentations
  • Objects can catch mouse over, left mouse and right mouse click events
  • Many reactions on events are possible (e.g. show or hide other objects, play sounds, start programs, quit presentation, skip page...)
  • Custom reactions for events are also possible with Hollywood code (for advanced users)
  • Use Hollywood Designer to create your diskmags, front-ends or games!
Requirements:
  • Kickstart 3.0 or MorphOS 1.x
  • 68020 CPU
  • Hollywood 1.9
  • Graphics board strongly recommended
  • 32 megabyte memory recommended
  • 800x600 resolution recommended
More information, screenshots and order possibility are available on the Airsoft Softwair website. (snx)

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14.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)


Boot pictures and screen backdrops for MorphOS
Cato Hagen provides several alternative boot pictures and screen backdrops at the Morphzone for Hdownload. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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14.Apr.2004
ANF


Protest Against Software Patents in Brussels, Belgium
As Heise Online reports, there are various protests against software patents underway this week, such as a demonstration in Brussels with the motto No Software Patents - Power to the Parliament, a demonstration whose lead organizer is in favor of a cost-free information infrastructure (FFII). (snx) (Translation: dm)

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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


April 14th: Developer Feedback Day
The MorphZone declared today as the Developer Feedback Day.

Whoever uses a program today might take the time to write a small message to the according author and let him know that the product is used and maybe place some additional remarks. Most times the authors do not receive any feedback by the users - soemtimes not even when they update the program.

Please take the Developer Feedback Day as a raeson for a quick note to the developers, graphic artists or other activists whose work is used day by day - the authors have earned a honour and maybe also the users will benefit from such responses by generating a new motivation for the developers to care for their products. (snx) (Translation: ub)

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14.Apr.2004
MorphOS-News.de (Website)


MAME: Version 0.80 for MorphOS available
The "Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator" (MAME) for MorphOS is available in version 0.80 now.

The archive (12.05 MB) from the Morphzone (title link) consists of the executable only and requires the file structure of MAME 0.72 or 0.69.

Changes:
  • Connection to version 0.80 of the common shared tree
  • Triple buffer in full screen mode
  • Reduced time delay while audio playback
  • small bugfixes
(snx) (Translation: ub)

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14.Apr.2004
David Scheibler (E-Mail)


Sunbeam Business Solutions announces Pegasos prebuild systems
Neufahrn, April 13th, 2004 - Sunbeam Business Solutions, an IT consulting company for small and medium business are offering Pegasos prebuild systems since April the 8th.

The systems are available for 699 Euro (G3 system, incl. VAT) or 999 Euro (G4 system, incl VAT) and are orderable at the XAPO-Shop - powered by Sunbeam. They include the according Pegasos-II mainboard with G3/600MHz or G4/1GHz processor card, 256MB DDR-RAM, a Radeon 9200SE 128MB gfx card, a 120GB hard disk, a CDRW/DVD (G3 system) or CDRW/DVD+RW combo drive (G4 system),a µATX case and Logitech's Premium Desktop Optical.

With their knowledge in assembling integrated systems for private and commercial use Sunbeam Businesss Solutions offers customers the chance to benefit from their experience and to give the customers the freedom to focus on important things and not to mess around with assembling a computer system.

For the future Sunbeam Business Solutions plans to offer more systems based on the Pegasos.

Contact:

Sunbeam Business Solutions GbR
Moosmühlenweg 5
85375 Neufahrn

info@sunbeam- business.de
http://www.sunbeam- business.de
http://www.xapo.de (snx) (Translation: ub)

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13.Apr.2004
Martin (DaFreak) Rebentisch (ANF)


Music: Liquid Skies records #069
Liquid Skies has released the 69th music pack. This time it contains a track named "Killing Obsession" from the Polish musician Lcr. The cover was created by Kuadziw.

More information about the track:
  • Title: Killing Obsession
  • Artist: Lcr
  • Style: Drum'n'Base
  • Length: 3:27
  • Format: mp3

The zipped file (about 2.5 MB) is available for free download at the homepage. (cg) (Translation: gf)

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13.Apr.2004
MorphZone (Website)


MorphOS: Update of commodity.library and parallel.device
Last week new versions of the commodity.library and parallel.device for MorphOS are uploaded to the FTP server for Pegasos customers for download.

Update (13-Apr-04, cr)
The new parallel.device is only for PegasosII systems. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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13.Apr.2004
Darius Brewka (E-Mail)


AmiStart: Further development of the start menu
Darius Brewka, author of the Windows like Startmenu AmiStart, points to the further development of this program.

He asks AmiStart users with gfx boards to contact him via e-mail. AGA and screens under 15 bit are not longer supported by AmiStart.
AmiStart contains a QuickLaunch bar, Drag&Drop-Support and a adaptable graphical surface allowing transparency, rounded edges, background textures, shape-Layer and many more. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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13.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


MorphOS: LAME 3.96 (non-ixemul)
Christian Rosentreter has compiled the latest version 3.96 of the LGPL MP3 encoder LAME for MorphOS and provides it for download under the title link. (snx) (Translation: gf)

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12.Apr.2004
Jörg Renkert (ANF)


AmiChameleon: Update
After beeing off-line for two weeks the AmiChameleon-Homepage is back! There are some major changes and additions.

Changes:
  • Support for Pixload, ReBooter and ArTKanoid
  • Documentation update (now available as HTML)
  • Online-Help added
  • Cache-Structure reworked
  • Online-Support for theme creation
  • Update of the Installation program
AmiChameleon V1.2 is now available here. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
Jacek Piszczek/ #morphos


MorphOS: TranspoClock 1.02
Jacek Piszczek released a new bugfixed version of TranspoClock for MorphOS. The archive is available at the title link. (cr) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
ANN (Website)


BabelDoc V2.8 (Update)
Lorence Lombardo released version 2.8 of BabelDoc. BabelDoc uses the Altavista translation service to translate texts. The program requires the reqtools.library, a TCP/IP-stack and the KingCon handler.

Update: (13.04.04, 21:00, cg)

Meanwhile version 2.8 is available. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
Olaf K. (ANF)


Amiga Arena: HollyRecord recompilation
Amiga Arena presents in co-operation with Telemar Rosenberger "HollyRecord". "HollyRecord" lets you easily record animations or presentations made with Hollywood.

HollyRecord has been recompiled with the new version 1.9 of Hollywood. Furthermore a WarpOS-version is now available. (snx) (Translation: sk)

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12.Apr.2004
Cloanto (ANF)


Happy Easter from Cloanto / Amiga Forever 6.0
Cloanto wish a peaceful and happy Easter holiday and present the updated Amiga Forever website, which includes the new features of version 6.0 compared to its predecessor. Some work would still be needed on the website, though, and comments are always very welcome.

The new features of Amiga Forever 6.0 compared to version 5.3:
  • Preinstalled Amiga applications more than doubled (both in the 3.x and in the 1.3 environments)
  • Support for hard disks larger than 4 GB, mouse wheel, AHI, MUI, etc.
  • Built-in web browser (great for cross-browser web design testing)
  • CDs are now automounted in real time (includes CacheCDFS file system)
  • Built-in CD audio player and media player
  • New Amiga ROM and OS files (as in Amiga OS "3.5" and "3.9", but also historical items such as the Amiga 1000 boot ROM)
  • New reference configurations (for A500, A1200, CDTV, CD³², etc.)
  • More than 10 "First Demos" (Boing, Robo-City, Juggler, etc.) added to 1.3 environment
  • More realistic emulation (e.g. floppy disk drive sound, which makes an unexpected big difference in perception, but also required the addition of a good old "noclick" utility ;-)
  • New documentation (HTML shared by both Amiga and host OS)
  • Amiga Explorer 6.0 software
  • New launcher panel with one-click controls
  • New Software Manager for easy emulation news and updates
The CD Edition of Amiga Forever additionally includes the following new features:
  • Boot from CD option (featuring the KX Light GNU/Linux distribution)
  • New Gallery section (includes 1985 Byte Magazine reprint)
  • New high quality videos (includes Launch of Amiga New York event)
  • New preinstalled games (Mindwalker, Ports of Call, Deluxe Galaga, etc.)
(snx)

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