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12. Jan 2026 | Author: Achim Kern


Hello and welcome to my internet pages (blog).

You will find here information from my private LCARS SmartHome and SmartSensor
project and some little old styled computer Games.
My software is done and created mostly with the famous developer tool Hollywood.

Surf at your leisure through my pages (start with Rubrics Software) and download
the provided software to your favorite computer system and OS
.

To support my freeware developments, I would appreciate donations via PayPal
forward for financing new projects.
 

My current main project is the

SMART HOME Hardware and Software Development


LIVE SnapShot from our SmartHome - Hindenburgstr. 29 (update every 10 minutes)

Archive Achim Kern - LCARS smarthome live snapshot Hindenburgstr. 29

LIVE SnapShot from our SmartHome - Johann-Schwarz-Str.6 (update every 10 minutes)

Archive Achim Kern - LCARS smarthome live snapshot Johann-Schwarz-Str.6

The connected home with its many possibilities and the control of our daily lives has
not yet enforced in reality, but it's probably only a matter of time and it is very
likely that the reality our ideas will outstrip.

The idea

Connect as Startup your MQTT broker, Node-Red, InfluxDB and Grafana
(RaspberryPi, WinOS. MacOS, Docker on a Synology NAS etc.) with your
Hollywood application and your operating system.

Expand the system step by step with room SensorNodes, actors and AWS skills
to have ALEXA, Amy and Marlene at your side. Upgrade with a LoRaWan Gateway to
be part of a big TTN community and running far away outdoor systems.

Call sensors, control your lights and actors, appliances, heating, sound system, TV,
Cameras etc. , send data to your website and all major IoT Clouds, receive push
messages on your phone - everything is possible.

Build your private, perfect and beautiful smart home control system maybe in the
classic StarTrek LCARS Design.

Thanks to Hollywood Player - you can use all that on all major computer systems.
My private system is constantly being expanded with additional functions - so read my
blog and learn like me !



New workplace in a our final retirement place

The smarthome applications at our new home and final retirement place are running
perfect 24/7. LCARS SmartHome, BOSCH SmartHome, HomeConnect, Philips HUE,
SONOS, Grafana, InfluxDB, Node-Red, TTN Stuttgart, Amazon AWS Alexa, Google Home
and HOMEASSISTENT are working fine and doing a great and awesome job.
Now we have got our new workplace - one more milestone successful reached.


Archive Achim Kern - new workplace


Hollywood Game Development MEMORY SCHMEMORY 2026

This game is a remake / clone of the Amiga game Memory Schmemory from Zooperdan.
Now it's done with Hollywood 10, small changes - and therefore available to all
major systems. If you like this game - please make a PayPal Donation to Zooperdan
or me on our Websites. With your help we will be able to provide more games
and applications all the time for free. Version 1.01 is now online. Enjoy.

Archive Achim Kern - Schmemory intro screen  Archive Achim Kern - Schmemory menu screen  Archive Achim Kern - Schmemory board screen


Hollywood11
Coderise

Hollywood is a programming language that can be used to create a wide variety of
programs, ranging from games and GUI-based applications for desktop systems to
mobile apps for Android and iOS. Hollywood's special feature is its support for
retro platforms (e.g. AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) and modern operating systems
(e.g. Windows, macOS, Linux) alike. It comes with a library of over 1000 commands and
its functionality can be extended further through over 30 plugins which are available for
free download.



Coderise is a major update with countless new features, optimizations, and bug fixes.
The most important new feature is that Hollywood 11 finally has a modular
build system, allowing programmers to link only the libraries they actually
need into the generated programs. This drastically reduces program size,
which is especially important on Amiga systems where memory is often limited.

With Hollywood 11, it is now possible, for example, to create programs that fit
on a single 880 KB floppy disk and run on an unmodified Amiga 1200.
This modular build system is implemented using a new engine called Miniwood,
which allows you to precisely define the components that should be linked into
the compiled programs to minimize their size.
Incidentally, Miniwood doesn't only have advantages on the Amiga;
other platforms can also benefit: If, for example, the display component is omitted
on Linux systems, then the generated programs also run on computers without X11,
e.g., on pure terminal systems, which was not possible with previous Hollywood versions.

Hollywood is a light-weight, but still powerful programming language whose core is
just about two megabytes in size and does not require any external components.
Hence, it is ideal for creating programs which run right out of the box. In fact,
Hollywood programs will run perfectly from a USB flash drive without any prior
installation whatsoever. Furthermore, Hollywood's core functionality can be greatly
enhanced through lots of freely available plugins allowing you to access OpenGL
and SDL through Hollywood, for instance.

The following platform architectures are currently supported by Hollywood:

AmigaOS 3 (m68k) AmigaOS 4 (ppc) Android (arm) AROS (x86) iOS (arm) Linux (x86)
Linux (x64) Linux (arm) Linux (ppc) macOS (arm64) macOS (x86) macOS (x64)
macOS (ppc) MorphOS (ppc) WarpOS (m68k/ppc) Windows (x86) Windows (x64)


Hollywood - Multimedia Application Layer (hollywood-mal.de)