Hollywood Player

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 Hollywood Player 10.0                       (C) by Andreas Falkenhahn 2002-2023
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I. Introduction
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The Hollywood Player is a program which can run applets created by the full
version of Hollywood. Applets are compiled Hollywood scripts and can contain
data sections as well. The advantage of the Hollywood Player is that people who
want to publish their own projects can now simply save them as Hollywood
applets, and these applets can then be started on every platform that the
Hollywood Player supports. Previously, Hollywood projects often came in the form
of many binaries for each of the various platforms supported by Hollywood which
made many distributions rather large. With the Hollywood Player, there is no
need to include several executables any longer - just put the applet into your
distribution archive and tell the user to install the respective Hollywood
Player for his platform!


II. How can I create my own applets?
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You cannot create your own applets with the Hollywood Player. Hollywood Player
can only run applets; it can't build them. To create your own applets, you have
to use the full version of Hollywood. Please visit the official Hollywood portal
at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ for more information on Hollywood and an order
form.


III. Installation
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a) AmigaOS and compatibles:
Please use the provided installer script. The Hollywood Player executable will
be copied to your SYS:Utilities drawer. You should not change this location
because many applets will simply use "HollywoodPlayer" as the default tool which
means that the Hollywood Player must reside somewhere in your path.

b) Windows:
Please use the provided installer.

c) macOS and Linux:
Simply drag the Hollywood Player to the desired location on your HD.


IV. System requirements
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AmigaOS version:
- Kickstart 3.0 (V39)
- 68020+ or PowerPC
- CyberGraphX or Picasso96
- codesets.library on AmigaOS 3 and 4, WarpOS, and AROS
- charsets.library on MorphOS
- MUI 3.8 or better
- a JPEG datatype
- optional: AHI by Martin Blom for sound output
- optional: reqtools.library for the StringRequest() function (except on OS4)
  and for the ColorRequest() function (also on OS4)

Win32 version:
- requires at least Windows 2000

macOS version:
- Intel build: requires at least macOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- PowerPC build: requires at least macOS 10.4 (Tiger)

Linux version:
- requires an X11 server and glibc
- optional: ALSA library for sound output
- optional: gtk for dialog boxes support
- optional: XFree86 video mode extension library, Xfixes, Xrender, Xcursor for
  some advanced functionality

Android version:
- Android 4.0 or higher
- an ARM CPU (32-bit or 64-bit)


V. Usage
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When running the Hollywood Player it will open a file requester allowing you to
select the applet to run. Additionally, you can also start the Hollywood Player
from a console or as an applet's default tool.

The following hotkeys are supported by most applets:

CMD+RETURN: switches between full screen and windowed mode CMD+h: iconifies the
applet CTRL-C: quits the applet

Furthermore, Hollywood Player accepts all arguments that Hollywood does (unless
blocked by the applet).	Please refer to the Hollywood documentation for a
description on how to use these arguments. The Hollywood documentation is
available online at 
http://www.hollywood-mal.com/


VI. Contact
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The Hollywood Player is an Airsoft Softwair product. You can reach us here:

E-Mail: andreas()airsoftsoftwair.de
WWW: http://www.hollywood-mal.com/


VII. License
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The Hollywood Player (the program) is © Copyright 2002-2023 by Andreas
Falkenhahn (in the following referred to as "the author"). All rights reserved.

The program is provided "as-is" and the author can not be made responsible of
any possible harm done by it. You are using this program absolutely at your own
risk. No warranties are implied or given by the author.

It is generally forbidden to spread this program without a written permission by
the author. This program is exclusively available for download from the official
Hollywood portal at http://www.hollywood-mal.com/. It is not allowed to upload
this
program to other servers or distribute it through any other means. It is also
forbidden to include this program along with your applet. Instead, you have to
point the user to the official Hollywood portal so that he can download this
program from there.

It is generally not allowed to release any kind of wrapper programs that make
Hollywood commands available to other programming languages or the end-user. It
is also generally not allowed to release any sort of mediator programs that
would enable the user to access Hollywood commands through a mediating software.

No changes may be made to the programs without the permission of the author.

This software uses Lua by Roberto Ierusalimschy, Waldemar Celes and Luiz
Henrique de Figueiredo. See License_Lua.txt for details.

This software uses libjpeg by the Independent JPEG Group.

This software uses libpng by the PNG Development Group and zlib by Jean-loup
Gailly and Mark Adler.

This software uses PTPlay © Copyright 2001, 2003, 2004 by Ronald Hof, Timm S.
Mueller, Per Johansson.

This software uses the OpenCV library by Intel Corporation. See
License_OpenCV.txt for details.
    
This software uses ImageMagick by ImageMagick Studio LLC. See
License_ImageMagick.txt for details.
    
This software uses the GD Graphics Library by Thomas Boutell. See License_GD.txt
for details.
    
This software uses the pixman library. See License_Pixman.txt for details.
    
Portions of this software are copyright © 2010 The FreeType Project
(www.freetype.org).  All rights reserved.    
    
Hollywood uses the Bitstream Vera font family. See License_BitstreamFonts.txt
for details.

The Amiga versions of this software use codesets.library by the codesets.library
Open Source Team. See License_LGPL.txt for details.
    
The Linux version of this software uses gtk, glibc, and the Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture (ALSA). See License_LGPL.txt for details.
    
The Android version of Hollywood uses the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) by Sam
Lantinga. See License_SDL.txt for details.

This software uses LuaSocket by Diego Nehab. See License_LuaSocket.txt
forbdetails. 

This software uses librs232 by Petr Stetiar. See License_librs232.txt for
details.

This software uses UsbSerial by Felipe Herranz. See License_UsbSerial.txt for
details.

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

DISCLAIMER: THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER
AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE
RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR
OR CORRECTION.

IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY
COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS
PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL,
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE
THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED
INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE
PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY
HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.


VIII. History
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Version 10.0  (12-Mar-23)
- Updated to Hollywood 10.0

Version 9.1   (23-Apr-22)
- Updated to Hollywood 9.1

Version 9.0   (20-Mar-21)
- Updated to Hollywood 9.0

Version 8.0   (08-Feb-19)
- Updated to Hollywood 8.0

Version 7.1   (10-Feb-18)
- Updated to Hollywood 7.1

Version 7.0   (16-Mar-17)
- Updated to Hollywood 7.0

Version 6.1   (10-Mar-16)
- Updated to Hollywood 6.1

Version 6.0   (07-Mar-15)
- Updated to Hollywood 6.0

Version 5.3   (20-Jul-14)
- First release
- Uses Hollywood kernel 5.3 from 05-Jul-13