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== History ==

Hollywood has its roots on the [[Amiga]] computer. Inspired by Amiga programming languages like [[AMOS (programming language)|AMOS]], [[Blitz BASIC]], and [[Amiga E]], Hollywood author Andreas Falkenhahn began development of Hollywood in Spring 2002 after finishing his A-levels.<ref>Johnson, Magnus: Interview with Andreas Falkenhahn. Total Amiga 21 (2005), pp. 14-15.</ref> Version 1.0 of the software was released in November 2002, but only for [[Motorola 68000|68000]]-based Amiga systems. A month later, a native version for the [[PowerPC]]-based MorphOS followed.<ref>Schaefer, Robbie: Hollywood Multimedia. AMIGAplus 132 (2003), pp. 24-26.</ref> Support for WarpOS was introduced with Hollywood 1.9 which appeared in Spring 2004 together with the first release of the Hollywood Designer, a tool which can be used to create presentations with Hollywood. AmigaOS 4 is supported since March 2005. Starting with version 2.0 (released in January 2006), Hollywood is using the [[Lua (programming language)|Lua]] programming language as its [[virtual machine]], but with significant modifications in [[syntax]] and functionality.<ref>List of projects that use Lua. http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lua-uses.html</ref> Starting with version 3.0 (January 2008), Hollywood for the first time also runs on two non Amiga inspired operating systems: Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Since version 4.5 (January 2010) Hollywood is also available with an [[integrated development environment]] on Windows. Since version 4.8 (April 2011) Hollywood can also compile executables for [[Linux]]. Hollywood 5.0 was released in February 2012 and introduces support for video playback and vector image formats like SVG. Starting with version 5.2 Hollywood also supports Android. <ref>Hollywood Portal, http://www.hollywood-mal.com/index.html</ref>

== General information ==

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== Development environment ==

There is no [[integrated development environment]] for the Amiga compatible version of Hollywood. On these systems, [[Cubic IDE]] and [[Codebench]] can be used to develop with Hollywood as these have support for the Hollywood language through plugins.<ref>Hollywood plugin for Cubic IDE, httphttps://code.google.com/p/hw4c/</ref><ref>Codebench IDE with Hollywood support, http://codebench.co.uk/</ref> On Windows, Hollywood comes with an integrated development environment that can be used to create Hollywood scripts. The [[Mac OS X]] and [[Linux]] versions of Hollywood don't come with an IDE either and can be controlled from the console or they can integrated into other IDEs.

== Hello World program ==