HWP_Plananarama 2.2

Run Hollywood scripts on planar screens

Short:        Run Hollywood scripts on planar screens
Author:       andreas@airsoftsoftwair.de (Andreas Falkenhahn)
Uploader:     andreas airsoftsoftwair de (Andreas Falkenhahn)
Type:         dev/hwood
Version:      2.2
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

The Plananarama plugin allows Hollywood to run on planar (palette) screens.
This finally makes it possible to run Hollywood scripts on plain AGA or ECS
systems with no graphics board installed - for the first time since Hollywood
1.93 (released in March 2005)! Starting with version 2.0, Hollywood required
CyberGraphX or Picasso96 to run. Since then, many people have asked for a
revival of Hollywood's planar engine, so here it is, a real blast from the
past! Thanks to Hollywood 6's greatly extended plugin API this feature could
be implemented completely in plugin space. Once Plananarama is installed, all
Hollywood scripts will 'automagically' run on palette screens again! All
resolutions are supported - from 8-bit LowRes to 1-bit productivity
SuperHighRes Interlace.

Starting with Plananarama 2.0 it is also possible to get direct access to the
screen's palette pens when it is running in fullscreen mode. This allows you
to draw directly using the screen's palette without the need for any color
remapping so drawing will become much faster. Also, it's possible to create
nice palette effects by changing pens, e.g. it's possible to fade or cycle
colors with almost no CPU load because in palette mode, Plananarama can
directly modify the hardware's color register instead of having to redraw
everything when colors change (as it needs to be done for real TrueColour
graphics).

Also, Plananarama 2.0 introduces support for real hardware sprites. When using
hardware sprites, the Amiga's custom chip hardware is used to draw the sprites
which allows your script to draw sprites in next to no time with almost no CPU
load.

All of this makes Plananarama the ultimate plugin for targetting classic Amiga
systems that don't have a graphics board installed.

Visit http://www.hollywood-mal.com/ for more information and plugins.