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30.Apr.2020
Edgar Schwan (ANF)


AmigaOS 4: Homebank 4.6.3
Homebank "is a free software that will assist you to manage your personal accounting". Originally the application was developed on the Amiga. The latest Linux version still can import project files of the old Amiga version. Now Edgar Schwan has updated the port of the program to his X11 environment AmiCygnix (screenshot ).

Changes since version 4.4:
  • Transactions can be broken down by category.
  • Quick search for transaction.
  • Fiscal year limits can be configured.
  • Planned transaction date before or after the weekend.
  • Possibility to execute planned transactions individually from the list.
  • Language can be set.
  • Overview of cash flows as a diagram.
  • New filters for the account window.
(cg) (Translation: dr)

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29.Apr.2020



AMOSKittens: free AMOS interpreter for AmigaOS 4 in development (Update)
Kjetil 'LiveForIt' Hvalstrand is working on an interpreter which can run AMOS source code under AmigaOS 4. As the developer wrote "on the Amos command this project tries to stay 99% compatible, a few command wont work as this project use a bit more modern chunky image format instead of the planar graphic format". He also points out to AMOS Professional AGA (amiga-news.de reported) for "this is the most advanced version of Amos Pro right now".

Update: (30.04.2020, 22:15, cg)

The developer has posted a short FAQ on his blog, answering question about AMOSKittens and AMOS Pro. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Apr.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


Tactical multiplayer game: GermZ (pre-version)
"GermZ" (video) is a party game for 2-4 players in which everyone tries to occupy cells by sending pathogens into them. Those one who could mass most of its pathogens in a cell, occupies it.

GermZ requires an Amiga equipped with at least 512 Kilobyte RAM, supports up to four joysticks and can be launched from harddrive or disk. This pre-version does not include computer enemies and has some issues on faster computers. This and much more will be fixed in the final version. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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28.Apr.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Picture viewer: Videntium Picta 2.30
Videntium Picta is a picture viewer providing simple picture editing and file managing functions written with Hollywood. In the latest version the text options are displayed in real-time, you do not have to reboot the computer. Additionally the desired language is selected via menu instead of the toolbar button. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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27.Apr.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Game: Amiga port of "Raid over Moscow"
In December Erik Hogan released the beta version (amiga-news.de reported) of his Amiga port of the C64 game "Raid over Moscow". Now the completed game is available as installation archive as well as CD and disk image. 1 MB RAM is required.

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27.Apr.2020



Arcade classic in 32 Kilobyte: Tiny Invaders
"Tiny Invaders" (video) is a clone of the classic Space Invaders. The game has only 32 Kilobyte and does not have special hardware requirements - but there are some issues with accelerator boards which therefore should be disabled. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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26.Apr.2020



Aminet-Uploads until 25.04.2020
The following archives have been added to Aminet until April 25th, 2020:
Amied.lha                comm/misc  4K        Amied - EDit files remotely f...
Anathema-Hilargo.adf     demo/disk  880K  68k Anathema: Hilargo Musicdisk
Void-AllWeKnowAboutDo... demo/euro  148K  68k All We Know About Dogs - Revi...
Void-MonodonM.lha        demo/euro  181K  68k Monodon Monoceros - Revision ...
SFL-CubicMeditation.lha  demo/intro 61K   68k Intro by Software Failure
Void-Worn.lha            demo/intro 5K    68k Worn - Bootblock intro - Revi...
Void-Dreams32.lha        demo/misc  537K  68k Demopack - April 2020
jansson_library.lha      dev/c      211K  OS4 native library for manipulati...
libgd-2.3.0_a68k.lha     dev/lib    2.8M  68k library for dynamic image cre...
TSGuiItaCat.lha          disk/misc  17K       Italian catalog for TSGui v2.2
MCE.lha                  game/edit  2.6M  68k Multi-game Character Editor
MCE-OS4.lha              game/edit  3.1M  OS4 Multi-game Character Editor
nightcity.lha            game/role  29K   68k Adventure Game created in Haktar
Runaway_AROSx86.lha      game/wb    2.3M  x86 LCD game conversion
Runaway_MOS.lha          game/wb    2.2M  MOS LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS3.lha          game/wb    4.1M  68k LCD game conversion
Runaway_OS4.lha          game/wb    2.6M  OS4 LCD game conversion
Runaway_WOS.lha          game/wb    2.5M  WOS LCD game conversion
FlashMandelNG_OS4.lha    gfx/fract  11M   OS4 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals f...
Covid19.lha              mods/misc  2.1M      Covid-19 4ch Hip Hop by HKvalhe
SamplesCreator.lha       mus/edit   39K   68k Samples creation and saving
SimpleSamples.lha        mus/play   43K   68k Little musical toy for all AM...
WarpJPEGdt.lha           util/dtype 330K  WOS JFIF-JPEG datatype V45.14
AmigaOhmItaCat.lha       util/misc  8K    OS4 Italian catalog for AmigaOhm ...
ElMeterItaCat.lha        util/misc  46K   OS4 Italian catalog for ElMeter v2.0
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26.Apr.2020



OS4Depot-Uploads until 25.04.2020
The following archives have been added to OS4Depot until April 25th, 2020:
jansson_library.lha      dev/lib 211kb 4.0 A native library for manipulatin...
amiarcadia.lha           emu/gam 5Mb   4.0 Signetics-based machines emulator
mce.lha                  gam/uti 3Mb   4.0 Multi-game Character Editor
abandonmi2.lha           gra/ico 382Mb 4.0 Another Abandon Icon Set for Ami...
flashmandelng.lha        gra/mis 11Mb  4.0 Mandelbrot & Julia fractals ...
vindentiumpicta.lha      gra/vie 2Mb   4.0 Picture Viewer written in Hollywood
mountsmbfs.lha           net/ser 55kb  4.1 GUI for SMBFS
elmeter_ita.lha          uti/mis 46kb  4.0 Italian catalog for ElMeter v2.0
st_rooms.lha             uti/mis 217Mb 4.0 Database of rooms aboard the shi...
st_schematics.lha        uti/mis 33Mb  4.0 Database of schematics in Star Trek
st_ships.lha             uti/mis 32Mb  4.0 Database of ships in Star Trek
vamp.lha                 vid/pla 2Mb   4.0 Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player
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26.Apr.2020



MorphOS-Storage-Uploads until 25.04.2020
The following archives have been added to MorphOS-Storage until April 25th, 2020:
SDL2_Libraries.lha        Development/Library       All Libraries SDL2 with...
OpenBor_7142.lha          Emulation                 OpenBOR is the ultimate...
ScummVM_2.2.0git.lha      Emulation                 A MorphOS build of Scum...
SuperMarioWar_2.0.lha     Games/Platform            A VERY good multiplayer...
DonkeyKong_1.1.lha        Games/Misc                LCD game conversion
StarTrek-ships_0.7.zip    Misc                      StarTrek-ships_0.7.zip
StarTrek-schematics_0.... Misc                      StarTrek-schematics_0.2...
Pegasos II Manual FR.pdf  Documentation/Pegasos     Pegasos II Manual FR.pdf
Pegasos II Manual EN.pdf  Documentation/Pegasos     Pegasos II Manual EN.pdf
Pegasos II Manual DE.pdf  Documentation/Pegasos     Pegasos II Manual DE.pdf
WarpJPEGdt_45.14.lha      System/Datatypes          JFIF-JPEG datatype
Installer_documentatio... Documentation/Manuals     Installer_documentation...
guide.lha                 Documentation/Manuals     Guide français de lha v...
(snx) (Translation: dr)

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26.Apr.2020



WHDLoad: New installers until 25.04.2020
Using WHDLoad, you can install games, scene demos and intros from cracking groups to your harddisk that were only working from floppy disks previously. The following installers have been added until April 25th, 2020:
  • 2020-04-25 fixed: Tin Toy Adventure (Mutation Software) fixed possible crashes (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: Super Cauldron (Titus) trainer enhanced, added 2nd button support, manual added (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: Street Racer (Epic) fixed 3/4 players mode, added joypad controls (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: Freedom (Coktel Vision) quitkey for 68000, manual protection bypass rewritten, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: Emmanuelle (TomaHawk) manual protection bypass improved, uses less chip memory, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: Dragon Breed (Irem/Activision) quitkey for 68000, trainer added, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: Colonization (Microprose) made OCS version 68000 compatible, added keyboard selection, manual added (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: BlockOut (California Dreams) fixed highscore display (Info)
  • 2020-04-25 improved: Alien Breed 2 (Team 17) quitkey for 68000 added (Info)
  • 2020-04-23 improved: Yolanda (Vectordean) imager fixed to support disk without highscores, trainer added, ButtonWait added, manual included (Info)
  • 2020-04-23 fixed: Quest For Glory / Hero's Quest (Sierra) keyboard handling corrected (Info)
  • 2020-04-23 new: Hoyle Book Of Games Volume 3 - Great Board Games (Sierra) done by JOTD (Info)
  • 2020-04-23 improved: Geisha (Cocktel Vision) quitkey for 68000, using latest kickemu (Info)
  • 2020-04-23 improved: Fantastic Dizzy (Codemasters/Purple Haze) fixed music replay on fast machines, fixed trashed screen after save/load on AGA, fixed second button jumps on AGA (Info)
  • 2020-04-23 improved: Bloodnet (Microprose/GameTEK) made OCS version 68000 compatible (Info)
  • 2020-04-23 improved: Bargon Attack (Coktel Vision) crack rewritten to fix crab arcade section, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 improved: Gem Stone Legend (Loriciel) splash window options added, quitkey for 68000 (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 improved: Ballistix (Psyclapse/Reflexions) second button in title screen fixed, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 improved: Tin Toy Adventure (Mutation Software) added joypad controls, added trainer, quitkey fixed (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 improved: Time (Empire) quitkey for 68000, uses less chip memory (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 improved: Space Gun (Ocean) quitkey for 68000, switchable lightgun support, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 fixed: Ishar 3 (Silmarils) second manual protection removed (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 improved: Captain Blood (Ere Informatique) quitkey for 68000, uses less chip memory, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 updated: BlockOut (California Dreams) reassembled, no longer requires 68020 (Info)
  • 2020-04-22 improved: Battle Bound (The Warp Factory) trainer improved, skip intro added, quitkey for 68000, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-20 updated: Ruff'n'Tumble (Renegade) streamlined joypad read code to be more compatible with third party adapters (Info)
  • 2020-04-20 improved: Intact (Sphinx Software/Grandslam) quitkey for 68000, interrupts fixed, uses less chip memory, trainer enhanced (Info)
  • 2020-04-20 updated: Fire & Ice (Graftgold) floppy slave completely rewritten, fixed possibly wrong intro music, trainer improved, joypad support added (Info)
  • 2020-04-20 improved: Deliverance (21st Century) added in-game trainer, added alternate slave for 512k chip only, more compatible controller read (Info, Image)
  • 2020-04-20 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) added OCS Slave for 1 MB chip memory (Info)
  • 2020-04-20 improved: 944 Turbo Cup (Loriciel) quikey for 68000, v17+ features, new install script (Info)
  • 2020-04-19 improved: Curse of Enchantia (Core Design) quitkey for 68000, options on splash window (Info)
  • 2020-04-19 fixed: Starquake (Stephen Crow/TOS Brothers) access faults and SMC removed, new icons (Info)
  • 2020-04-19 improved: Chaos Engine 2 (Bitmap Brothers) fixed non-working AGA version, added CD32 controls for ECS version (Info)
  • 2020-04-19 improved: Cedric (Neo/Alcatraz) quitkey for 68000, using kickemu13 instead 31, uses less chip memory, skip intro added, manual added (Info)
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26.Apr.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


AmigaRemix: New songs added
AmigaRemix has made available new mixes of well-known soundtracks of Amiga games as MP3-files. Since our last news item, the following song has been added:
  • Turrican 3 (Scrap Yard 1)
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25.Apr.2020
Generation Amiga (Webseite)


Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player 2.25
The new version 2.25 of the media player program V.A.M.P. (Virtual Amiga Multimedia Player) written with Hollywood has been released for AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS (as well as Windows). (cg) (Translation: dr)

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25.Apr.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Print magazine: Issue 116 of Amiga Future readable online
Issue 116 (September/October 2015) of the print magazine "Amiga Future" can be read online on its website. You can also purchase a pdf version with a higher resolution or a printed version in the shop. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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24.Apr.2020
os4welt.de (Webseite)


AmigaOS 4: Web browser Odyssey 1.23 r5_beta06, update 1
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin is constantly working on beta versions of his AmigaOS 4 port of the web browser Odyssey. For the latest beta version 6 additionally there is a hotfix (ZIP, 20 MB), which fixes some of the potential causes of crashes of the included Cairo library and which has to be copied over the installation of the beta version.

Changes of the past releases of Odyssey:
  • Beta 6: MediaPlayer: fixed out-of-window issues when compositing effects disabled in prefs:gui, but compositing still available (c) Ami603.
  • Beta 6: MediaPlayer: fixed another bug found by ktadd when compositing being disabled in prefs:gui, while compositing still available: the content of composited video overlap other window's content (c) Hans De Ruiter
  • Beta 6: MediaPlayer: rewritten media player's AHI part to use AHI device API, instead of AHI library API: No exclusive locks of audio hardware from Odyssey anymore with any AHI settings! (c) Capehill
  • Beta 6: MediaPlayer: hack a bit backfill code, so when we in compositing video mode, and hit f11 to go to real fullscreen, then no left/right and bottom (when hit middle mouse button to hide player's GUI) borders visibly.
  • Beta 6: MediaPlayer: fixed a look of 'mute' item in media player's RMB menu, which now has on/off marker just like 'control' and 'loop' items. (c) Javier.
  • Beta 6: a bit better locale_cleanup (c) Javier
  • Beta 6: move an opening of asyncio.library to main.cpp same as other libraries, just to make things be cleaner (thanks to Javier for an idea)
  • Beta 6: one more user-agent for spoofing by request: iPhone OS 12.4
  • Beta 6: changed in prefs/media "webm (vp8)" on "webm (vp8, vp9)" as we can play both. OWB.cd updated as well, translators need to take care of.
  • Beta 6: add functionality to disable audio/video MP4 support in Preferences/Media (handy when one wants to save mp4 instead of playing in a browser) from 1.25 (c) Deadwood. Enabled by default the same as before. OWB.cd updated, translators need to take care of.
  • Beta 5: fixed memory leak in ac_free_video_decoder done by Piru on "acinerella" (FFmpeg wrapper simplifying work with FFmpeg: https://github.com/astoeckel/acinerella/)
  • Beta 5: for time being use back static libavformat.a instead of shared version till proper changes will have a place (that to avoid crashes in ffurl*)
  • Beta 5: debugging: added cross-platform D(bug("...")) define (see Base/debug.h), thus on OS4 always use DebugPrintF() instead of kprintf() and get rid of Clib2's libdebug.a
  • Beta 5: get rid of libaos4deps.a, which contain sttcpy() and DoSuperNew() realisations, those functions now in separate object.
  • Beta 5: updated youtube scripts to the latest ones from Fab's page.
  • Beta 5: get rid of CyberGraphics everywhere in favor of graphics.library (c) Capehill
  • Beta 5: added support of compositing video in fullscreen mode. You can have as many videos in different tabs as you wish in fullscreen, not just one as with overlay (be it P96 or CGX5). also fixing some bugs in MediaPlayer while adding compositing video (c) Ami603 with help from Hans & Capehill.
  • Beta 4: Major change in Video/Audio: Thanks to Frank from AmiBoing/EntwicklerX Odyssey now uses Frank's real amiga shared libs for all FFmpeg parts handling video/audio in the browser. That in comparison with my older static FFmpeg compile mean:
    1. We have now FFmpeg 2.2.16 instead of an older 2.2.1 (why not 3.x and 4.x ? Because since 2.2.16 some decoders start to be slower).
    2. Binary of Odyssey is smaller on 5mb now, as no FFmpeg code built-in, that code in the shared libs instead.
    3. Frank's version recognize Altivec unit and if available, uses the Altivec code automatically (so theoretically those ones who has Altivec machines can have better speed in video playback)
  • Beta 4: All the shared libs also placed in the LIBS folder of Odyssey and will be used from there now, so users will have no issues. But of course, you can move them all to system LIBS: directory if you wish: AmigaOS4 will firstly search libs in the LIBS: directory of Odyssey, and if nothing found then the system's one.
  • Beta 4: In the prefs/media enabled by default WebM, Flv and Ogg (before they were disabled), so everything works out of the box. If users wish to not have video/audio be played in the browser but to have downloads instead, then those options can be disabled.
  • Beta 4: incorporated some changes which Deadwood did for 1.25 version back in past and which wasn't in our version till now, such as:
    • Improved audio/video sync code in MediaPlayer.
    • Free locale resources regardless of application creation.
  • Beta 4: one more user-agent for spoofing by request: Nintendo Wii
  • Beta 3: fixed bug in Odyssey with WebP rendering being in blue color (Cairo expect ARGB, no needs for byteswap) (c) Petrol. Also, rebuild with newer libWebP v1.1.0
  • Beta 3: major PNG decoding changes:
    1. Odyssey compiled with 1.6.37 instead of old 1.2.50 libpng + necessary changes in Odyssey's code
    2. added APNG (animated png) support. Code taken from today's WebKit source code and adapted to our version + added .apng mime-type as well. Changes applied: 1, 2. For test visit Wikipedia: APNG and see if animation works
  • Beta 3: Ouch! The current version of Cairo we use till now didn't use Semaphores as expected, but pthreads instead! Removed pthreads usage in favor of os4 semaphores. That theoretically can bring some speed and may have some impact on MediaPlayer. Also recompiled Cairo with libpng16 now.
  • Beta 3: actual build dates for $VER: everywhere (version, aboutbox, and about.html)
  • Beta 3: fix "download-font" script by adding --no-check-certificates to wget (c) khayoz
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23.Apr.2020
MorphZone (Webseite)


MorphOS: Software Development Kit 3.14 (April 2020)
Press release: The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the release of the MorphOS Software Development Kit 3.14 (April 2020).

This release is our biggest update yet and offers countless improvements in our compilers, includes, libnix, GeekGadget environment, tools and ixemul.library. We've updated GCC 8 and 9 to their latest versions. Binutils, cmake and git, among others, were also updated. The full list of changes may be found in the SDK.readme file included in the distribution. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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22.Apr.2020



Game previews: New videos of "Boss Machine" and "Dread"
"Dread" is a Doom clone for an A500 equipped with 1 MB RAM. In a new video the developer shows the latest status and is creating the first level of the game. For the shoot'em up game "Boss Machine" there is also a new video which shows the weapons being currently in development. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2020
Indie Retro News (Webseite)


Jump'n Run for kids: Little Princess 1 and 2 based on "Solid Gold"
After the Wille brothers completed their jump'n run game Solid Gold in 2013, the eight years old daughter of the graphic artist Gerrit Wille would like to have a similar game appropriate to her age. Therefore in 2014 the games Little Princess 1 (Video) and Little Princess 2 (Video) were created which even included some graphics painted by the the young lady. Now the developers have made available the so far unreleased game to all. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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21.Apr.2020
Microoci (ANF)


Spanish Interview: Israel Ortuño (amigatronics.com)
"Microoci" has interviewed (Spanish, machine provided English translation) Israel Ortuño who since 2007 has been maintaining the Spanish Amiga website amigatronics.com. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Swidron: Unreleased Boulder-Dash game from 1994
Swidron is an unreleased game similar to Boulder Dash created in 1994. It was written by the team Bisoft: Programming by Maciej Gulda, Graphics by Michał Mielczyński and misic by Jacek Kącki.

You can get further information on the website of Moby Games. Additionally there is a video. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2020
Amiga Future (Webseite)


Developer tools: vasm 1.8h and vlink 0.16d
Frank Wille has released updates of the assembler vasm and the linker vlink. The release notes can be found on the corresponding sub-website under the titel link. (snx) (Translation: dr)

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19.Apr.2020
Andreas Falkenhahn (ANF)


Hollywood Designer 5.0 released
Press release: Eight years after the release of Hollywood Designer 4.0, Airsoft Softwair, the hardest working men in code business, are finally proud to present the long awaited fifth incarnation of our famous Hollywood Designer.

Hollywood Designer 5.0 is a multimedia authoring system that runs on top of Hollywood and can be used to create all sorts of multimedia-based applications, for example presentations, slide shows, games, and applications. Thanks to Hollywood, all multimedia applications created using Hollywood Designer can be exported as stand-alone executables for the following systems: AmigaOS3, AmigaOS4, WarpOS, MorphOS, AROS, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. This is a feature that is totally unique in the Amiga world!

Hollywood Designer 5.0 is a massive update and boasts lots of new features and improvements over the previous version, released almost 8 years ago. We do not want to bore you, so here are just some of them:
  • Ready for Hollywood 8.0: Supremacy!
  • Full Unicode support
  • Guide and grid support for convenient layouting
  • Multi-user support with advanced permission management
  • Import objects from other projects
  • Full support for Hollywood video layers
  • Control bars for video objects
  • Curves are now drawn as real Bézier splines - looks so much better!
  • Multiple sound streams can be playing at the same time
  • AROS version available for the first time
  • Objects can be exported as images
  • Full support for MUI 5.0 on all platforms
  • New browse mode for projects
  • Much more efficient I/O
  • Support for presentation remotes
  • Advanced search functionality
  • Plugins can be linked to executables
  • Lots of new action events
  • Many more options for embedding custom code
  • Full support for Hollywood 8.0's plugin interface
  • Lots of other changes, optimizations and bug fixes
Hollywood Designer is no longer limited to "just" being an authoring software, it can now also be used as a flexible graphics editor because it supports many features of modern graphics editors like multiple layers with over 30 filter effects, vector graphics, image import, and text.

Having been in development for almost 20 years, Hollywood Designer 5.0 is a very stable and mature multimedia authoring system. We would like to emphasize that it is not only suited for personal use, but also for professional commercial customers. Ferrule Media, for instance, have created an info channel containing over 2000 (!) unique slides in a single project with Hollywood Designer. Hollywood Designer was designed to handle these huge projects efficiently so that they can run 24 hours a day and 7 days a week without any visible memory fragmentation! Ferrule Media's info channel, created with Hollywood Designer, is running in dental clinics all over Norway.

Hollywood Designer 5.0 is available as a CD and a download version. There are native versions of the program for AmigaOS3 (m68k), WarpOS (ppc), MorphOS (ppc), AmigaOS4 (ppc), and AROS (x86). If you already own a previous version of Hollywood Designer, you can buy a discounted upgrade version. People who bought Hollywood Designer 4.0 in 2020 can request a free upgrade. Please note that Hollywood Designer 5.0 runs on top of the Multimedia Application Layer Hollywood 8.0. Thus, Hollywood 8.0 is strictly required for Hollywood Designer 5.0. Both programs are available in a special bundle which is the ultimate package for every power Amiga user who wants to see what his system can do with Hollywood 8.0 & Hollywood Designer 5.0.

Screenshots:
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Interview: Markus Tillmann about the Warhol connection and amiga40-highlights (13. Jul.)
New Commodore owners with new website and first products (update) (12. Jul.)
Emulator: WinUAE 6.0.0 (04. Jul.)
Group of investors represented by Youtuber Perifractic buys Commodore (28. Jun.)
AmiKit In A Box: Raspberry Pi 5 with Workbench distribution (25. Jun.)
MorphOS: Web browser Wayfarer 10.0 (16. Jun.)
MorphOS: Software collection Chrysalis 3.19 (15. Jun.)
Legal dispute: Hyperion can be held liable for copyright infringements (13. Jun.)
Youtuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand (08. Jun.)
Programming competition: AmiGameJam 2025 started (05. Jun.)
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