welcome to cheesy listening! A pretracker cheesedisk for 512K Amiga 500. Probably works on other amigas too. Probably. But why would
you have a different Amiga? *anyway*. arrowkeys to select music or control scroller speed. Enter to start a tune. wasd or numpad also works for you emulator guys. 
Or of course, just use your mouse like normal people. (Haha, like normal people would run an Amiga 500 musicdisk. Normal people *suck*!) 
Hit esc or both mousebuttons when you get tired of reading this. And of course, hit Help to redisplay these instructions in the little console window. 
Yep, it's pretracker tunes again, so there will be "some" precalc time.    
ok, sending the keyboard by dhl to virgill now...                           
Virgill on the keys. 
Let's dance, put on your red shoes and dance the cheese. This cheesy listening musicdisk is dedicated to kimi kandler :) 
In late november, on a boring winter afternoon, i started pretracker and immediately got addicted again. 
So from there on, i made a new track every 2-3 days and presented it in the preamp discord channel. After a while the idea to
make a musicdisk grew on me and i found 2 potent guys to help me out. So thank you Critikill and Nosferatu to make this happen <3
... You might notice that some of the songs are re-tracked versions of my older pc 4k tracks. I was curious how they would sound as
pretracker chiptunes. Hope I succeeded to make em cheesy enough. And there are conversions from bigger amiga modules. I like em small ;) 
Maybe I talk a little while about the tracks you're about to hear. "Cheesy Intro": Filesize 3966 byte. Just threw some sticky chords
and bleeps to sync to.    "Game over man": Filesize 7678 byte. The original is a windows exemusic track, released at revision. Why not a
game over tune to start a music disk? hehe. Hi Noname <3.
"Chrispy cheese": Filesize 7396 bytes. Had this little and simple melody in my head that just came out. Hope it is cheesy enough.
"Galvanize": Filesize: 9034 bytes. Originally composed for my 8k intro with the same name. I think it won the nordlicht demoparty in
2015.  "Angry nerds": Filesize 16554 bytes. This one is a conversion of an amiga mod which was included in the great chiperia series.
Hi Slash!  "Korolev": Filesize 7842 byte. The original is a windows pc 4klang track used in the Korolev intro from LJ.  Won the evoke demoparty. 
"Fibonacci": Filesize 5606 byte. Really cool that pretracker can go up to 5 octaves. Else this wouldn't be possible ;) Original
windows 4k track used in the intro "soap washing itself" by svatg. Hi halcy.
"Gimme lemonade": Filesize 21626 bytes. Was a little hard to get the chords right. Original used in the Lemonade demo from lemon.
"Dreamcatcher": Filesize 7936 bytes. Interesting. the original windows 4k intro is as half as big. :) 
"Forsaken": Filesize 6096 bytes. The original version was an amiga hivelytracker track with 6 channels. You should check out
the awesome tracker <3. Later Syphus made an ahx conversion - based on this - i've did this protracker conversion and extended
it a little.  "Lords of the chords": Filesize 23542. Original was a mod which was used in a last minute intro for the deadline party.
I think pretracker gives a lot of molten cheese to it :) 
"Dorfdisko": Filesize 3778 bytes. Let's dance, to the song they're playin' on the radio. Original was a windows 4k music for our revision
intro from 2021. Hello nr4. 
"4kasm": Filesize 4836 bytes. Original was an amigaklang track. But it sounds better in pretracker :) Hello Dan.
So far so good, i hope I gave you enough information. All filesize information without warranty! But hey, we will include all of the
tunes in the archive. So you can see for yourselves. Let me continue with my greetings. (I try to keep em short).
Chilly cheese nuggets flying to my brotherhood of maniacs of noise, my friends in various whatsapp groups, the jailhouse guys from
alcatraz, the crazy braujobb haujobb pals, the stinky lemon and deadliners clique, the nectarine and preamp people, the insane ones,
the desire guys, tek mausespeck, the masterminds behind jurassic pack, all my dudes from the amiga music facebook group, the real melon,
those who bend the bitz, the dudes from offence and rebels ofcourse, and a lot lot lot lot lot lot more <3  Maybe we've got a longer greetings list later on? Now its time for someone else to take over. 


          Hey you Amiga mice! Critikill at the keys. Finally there is something tasty for your ears again. 
Virgill asked me last year if I would like to take part in an Amiga music disc and of course I immediately joined in. It took us about a month from the first ideas to the realisation of Cheesy Listening. A big thank you to Virgill and Nosferatu for the great work - it was great fun.
I hope you are all ready for the great sound, have your dancing shoes on, a glass of red wine in front of your Amiga and enjoy a delicious piece of cheese! A little tip from me, if you want to watch the mouse dance, just be patient. Special greetings to all my groupmates of 
Brainstorm and Rebels - hope to see you soon at another Revision.
cheesy cheers from Critikill! Nosferatu banging the keys now. Seems like all I do nowadays is code musicdisks and write scrollers! So life is good, hehe.
Cheese is also good, especially the kind with blue moldy veins, mmmm. And being norwegian, I must of course shout out to our local specialty brunost.
Yeah, I guess there's a reason why it stayed local.
Anyway I'd like to thank Virgill for organizing this very cheesy production, and Critikill for his extremely cheesy pixels. As for me
my code has always been kinda cheesy, so I didn't have to adapt very much. 
inb4pi: special greets to all members of offence, and all nectarine listeners world wide. I'm not going to type the names of everyone, go look in Preamp II instead! 
              
              so I just reshuffled some mem usage in the intro, now it works on 512KB Amigas too.
I just think that's a worthwhile thing to do, if possible. I hear 512+512 is considered standard now,
but when I was active back in the day you couldn't count on people having that extra trapdoor memory. So that's *my* standard!

yeah, we managed to pack a lot of nice features into this musicdisk, I'm very pleased with it. Dancing mice here and there, longplay mode,
the traditional bidirectional scroller, a very fine progress bar, keyboard control in addition to mouse, the awesome VU meter, and of course clean exit to the OS.
I also wanted to make a feature for longplay mode
that depacks the next tune in advance! It would take a lot of mem since you have to double buffer everything, but it should have been possible on 1MB
Amigas. But it wouldn't work if the user tried to start a new tune while that one was precalcing. So I went no further with it.
Pink to code a precalc abort function! 
          
a nerd word about the progress bar. Precalc time is calculated and shown in Pretracker for each song. But of course that's a pure CPU cycle counting estimate,
in a real prod you will have sprites, bitplanes and blitter stealing cycles left and right, making actual precalc time slightly longer than indicated.
Actually the faster the scroller runs, the more it will blit, so the precalc is slightly slower. so what I did was just create an estimated multiplier, set to 1.3 right now.
Still it will be incorrect on faster Amigas of course, but atleast it will just jump down from 50% or whatever to 0, and start the music. Pink promised
a callback option for the next Pretracker version, which should solve this problem. Anyway... when testing on real A500 I found it takes a few seconds longer to precalc
on real hardware than in WinUAE. I calibrated the precalc multiplier for real hardware so it will probably skip the lower end if you run in emu. It's not exact for all tunes but
bah.

Oh well, sunday evening now and I just fixed the last (known) bug, so gonna call it a wrap and go play dying light 2, seeyas!

and that's all we have time for today. but tune in next week, same cheese time, same cheese channel. 
wrapology .....