Manuel Montoto

Working on games since 1997, ex-associate professor. Actively coding and composing music for old game systems.

[Eric S. Raymond @esrtweet]

Dear Microsoft: I gotta say I appreciate how hard you're working to make 2026 the Year of the Linux Desktop.

https://t.co/dgLM0GiNfz

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@olson_dan I suppose you are talking about video games, but isn't that true of the whole software engineering field as well?

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@neogoose_btw I can foresee a wall of these at home doing all sorts of cool things.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@cremieuxrecueil Not true.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@ZPostFacto The future of these tools is local where nobody can screw you up.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@x68000_takako These systems are precious treasures and need to be preserved for the future.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@kumakuma68 Oooh! :-)

[Sandy Petersen 🪔 @SandyofCthulhu]

It's difficult to hate Electronics Arts as much as it deserves.

I never worked directly for them, but a small developer made up of close friends (as in they gamed at my house!) did a successful game for EA. EA paid for the development with advances. When the game was a hit, EA illegally withheld the royalties, obfuscating the matter by saying they had to "repay advances first" (despite the fact that the VERY FIRST QUARTER'S ROYALTIES would surpass all the advances combined). The small developer had been living paycheck to paycheck (EA advances aren't too big), and had planned to use the expected royalties to fund itself for more great games.

Well, without the royalties, the small dev was in immediate danger of bankruptcy, and they didn't have the cash to hire lawyers. If they hired a lawyer on spec, their counsel would face off against EA's huge team of a**holes who could draw it out forever. In hindsight, perhaps they should joined with other groups angry at EA, but they went under. Their company dissolved, and my friends found other jobs, scattering around the industry.

All the upcoming cool games they had been working on were destroyed by EA's short-sighted greed. If EA had instead funded them, then EA could have had a whole stream of successful games. But no, to get a few hundred thousand they murdered a goose with a golden egg.

I guarantee you've heard of the game they made, and may have played it. It was a big enough hit to have action figures made. Not giving the name here because EA is spawned from the bowels of Hell. That's just one single example.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@pecotito_ General public is the wrong public.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

More work on my Nord Modular G2 editor. USB communication is now fast and stable. @nordkeyboards

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@ayanakajima3 @TheOldOtaku I agree, sounds much better.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@SebAaltonen Is it already done?

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@SebAaltonen And can you do it instantly?

[RPCS3 @rpcs3]

PSA: @TencentGlobal is aggressively scraping the Internet to build yet another AI slop chatbot, DDoSing many websites in the process.

We've found that, as of last week, their scraping bots can now solve Cloudflare challenges and behave like real users while ignoring robots.txt. In the last 24 hours alone, our website received more than 3 million successful requests from Tencent bot IP addresses, plus another 1 million that were blocked by Cloudflare challenges.

These recurring DDoS attacks from Tencent have been going on for over a year, and we have been constantly adjusting our firewall rules to filter them while trying not to impact Tencent's real users. Because that is no longer possible, we're now fully blocking Tencent IP addresses, starting with ASN 132203. We recommend other sysadmins do the same.

Other ASNs displaying similar abusive behaviour will also be fully blocked from our services.

We'd also like to thank @Cloudflare for sponsoring us with Project Alexandria as of 2025, giving our sysadmin the tools to keep RPCS3's online services running without service disruptions.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@realMonsterBath You can't rush art.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@realMonsterBath Working on many things is great. Doesn't necessarily slow the main project down, and at some point you drop an dangerous amount of releases.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@realMonsterBath Nice, I can relate. If I take a look at this past month I think it's a big GBA game for me as the main focus + finishing a SNES game + some PC Engine secret stuff + assorted work on my MIDI tracker + writing a new patch editor for my favorite synthesizer + other smaller stuff.

[Manuel Montoto @m6502]

@americanmcgee Very much respect.