Hollywood is a commercially distributed programming language written by Andreas Falkenhahn, who trades as Airsoft Softwair, and it is aimed mainly at multimedia programs and games. It began on the Amiga: development started in spring 2002, version 1.0 appeared that November for 68000-based Amiga machines, and a MorphOS version followed a month later. Over the years it spread to WarpOS, AmigaOS 4, Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS. From version 2.0 in 2006 it runs on a heavily modified Lua virtual machine. Its design stresses ease of use and platform independence: scripts can only call the built-in command set of roughly 900 commands for graphics, sound, files, text, sprites and input, and they run inside a sandbox. A built-in cross compiler links scripts and their data files into one stand-alone executable for any supported platform. An add-on, Hollywood Designer, builds slide-based presentations and kiosk systems on top of the language.
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History
Version 1.0 of the software was released in November 2002
General information, multimedia
It was mainly designed for the creation of games and multimedia applications.
History, version 2.0
Hollywood is using the Lua programming language as its virtual machine
Influenced By: Amiga E, History, Amiga E
Inspired by Amiga programming languages like AMOS, Blitz BASIC, and Amiga E
In Field: Computer Graphics, General information
The language set comprises roughly 900 different commands from the following fields of application: 2D graphics, sound
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