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14. Nov 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.

Software Development - NEWS
 

Preview brand new developing title  - TARAN - WILD WILD WEST

Archive Achim Kern - HOLLYWOOD Taran WILD WILD WEST

Preview - REMASTER Version TARAN - OPERATION SIRIUS

Archive Achim Kern - HOLLYWOOD Taran Operation Sirius REMASTER

 
I am currently working on the remastered version of Taran - Operation Sirius, Taran im Abenteuerland and
the brand new developed title Taran Wild Wild West.
Thanks to AI systems, I’ve been able to take the dashboard and graphics to a whole new level.
As has been discussed in many forums, there are, of course, pros and cons to these systems.

From my perspective - I’m a coder and developer, not much of an artist.
AI allows me to achieve a level of quality I could never reach on my own.
The same applies to the voice acting;
using ElevenLabs, I’ve been able to elevate the gaming experience as well.


SMART HOME Hardware and Software Development
 

Preview - new UI HOLLYWOOD CONNECT OS - design and idea from ChatGPT AI

Archive Achim Kern - HOLLYWOOD CONNECT OS - new prototype design and idea ChatGPT AI

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 !



Workplace at our final retirement Smart Home

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 perfect workplace - one more milestone successful reached.

our new workplace - design and idea from ChatGPT AI

Archive Achim Kern - new workplace design and idea from ChatGPT AI


Hollywood11 Coderise - TARAN IM ABENTEUERLAND  (REMASTER 2026) preview





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)