Hwp_Malibu

Malibu 1.5
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Malibu is a plugin for Hollywood which contains an import filter for Scala
presentations made with the classic Scala software for Amiga computers. 
As soon as Malibu is installed, Hollywood will suddenly be able to show those
Scala presentations or compile them.

With Malibu it is now possible to run those Scala presentations without the
actual classic Amiga hardware. 
Because the whole emulation runs on top of Hollywood's multimedia application
layer you can run Scala presentations on every platform supported by Hollywood. 
In many cases the quality of the pictures that Malibu displays is much better
than the original Scala quality because Scala often had to remap many pictures
with very different colors to a 8-bit display which resulted in a massive loss
of color information. 
With Malibu, however, all graphics are shown in true colour.

Malibu emulates nearly the whole Scala command set and supports all Scala
versions from 1.0 up to Scala InfoChannel 500 which was the last Amiga version
of Scala. Emulation is done by the El Capitan microkernel which tries to achieve
the best performance possible on the system used. For
example, the next page is already calculated while the current page is on the
display. Complex transition effects can also be pre-calculated and then
displayed smoothly.

Scala is a program which helped the Amiga to become a real Multimedia wonder.
There were no products for a long long time that could beat an Amiga with Scala.
Therefore Scala was widely used in all different production
fields, from movies and television to big shows. Everyone who has worked with
Scala knows what powers it has. But this power is only possible because Scala is
very hard-coded to the Amiga's custom chips which leads to the problem that it
does not run on modern Amiga systems or other platforms. 
For many years all sorts of users complained that there was no Scala that runs
RTG compatible. This time is over now. Malibu revives Scala in a completely
system-friendly way.
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Released on 08-Oct-2024 by Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas()airsoftsoftwair.de>
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