Appendix A. Installation and setup
Now that we have looked at the various options for each of the different types of tools that you will need to start developing NES games, we will walk through getting set up on each of the three supported platforms.
A.1 Windows
This section covers the Windows operating system.
A.1.1 Setting up the CC65 Assembler
If you are using one of the Windows platforms, from Windows XP up to Windows 11, you need to go to the cc65 home page and select the Windows Snapshot link at the bottom of the page. Clicking the link will download the ZIP library cc65-snapshot-win32.zip. Most reasonably modern versions of Windows can extract files from ZIP files, in which case you can just right-click the downloaded file and select Extract ...
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