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This isn't in any way a review, just my opinions.

Just for fun, I downloaded a trial of Hollywood Screenplay 2.15. Well, 2 downloads actually. The first was to my laptop (Vista sp1). Hollywood Screenplay doesn't run on Vista. So, the second download was to my XP Pro desktop.

The install went smoothly, although I could see that this program was made in the Win 95 and 98 days. Nevertheless, it loaded fairly quickly and runs well with XP.

The very first thing I noticed, and liked after opening, is that learning it is easy. F keys control the slug line and Action, parenthesis, etc. Hit enter after typing the action sequence and you're in Character. Enter again takes you to the dialogue line. That's really about all there is to it. Just glance at the bottom of the screen and you see the list of F keys and what each key does. Even I had it figured out within a few minutes. Press the shift key and you'll see that the F keys change.

I have a few pages printed out from my script and began typing it into HS. Hollywood Screenplay doesn't capitalize first letters of a sentence. That's not a big deal, but I read the page I'm typing rather than watch the screen, and I've gotten used to the automatic capitalization in MM2000.

Once I realized that, and made the corrections, it was smooth sailing. This is an older, but still nice program, and much cheaper than the competition, except for the freebies. It doesn't have all the newer features of MM6 or Final Draft, and realistically even Celtx has additional features missing from HS. Still, I like this program better than Celtx or Cinergy (also free). Plus, despite its age, HS does scripts to Hollywood standard format. New is nice only if you have a need to be on the cutting edge with bloated programs that contain features you'll never use. Look at Word 2007 to see what I mean.

HS has the ability to do revisions, film and sitcom production and submission and formats for plays and soap operas.

The downside of the trial is, although it's full featured including print and save capability, you only get 5 uses in the 30 day trial. I haven't gotten into all the features, so can't comment on everything, which means I'm going to have to cheat a bit (shhhh, don't tell anyone), since I really want to give this program a full workout. It might be a keeper. The price is certainly very fair.

For anyone wanting a good screenwriting program for Spec Scripts, and can handle about $50 bucks or so, I can recommend Hollywood Screenplay.