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@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ Documentation is online at https://prog8.readthedocs.io/
Required tools:
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-`64tass `_ - cross assembler. Install this on your shell path.
-A recent .exe version of this tool for Windows can be obtained from my `clone `_ of this project.
+[64tass](https://sourceforge.net/projects/tass64/) - cross assembler. Install this on your shell path.
+A recent .exe version of this tool for Windows can be obtained from my [clone](https://github.com/irmen/64tass/releases) of this project.
For other platforms it is very easy to compile it yourself (make ; make install).
A **Java runtime (jre or jdk), version 8 or newer** is required to run the packaged compiler.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ If you want to build it from source, you'll need a Kotlin 1.3 SDK as well (or fo
IntelliJ IDEA with the Kotlin plugin).
It's handy to have a C-64 emulator or a real C-64 to run the programs on. The compiler assumes the presence
-of the `Vice emulator `_.
+of the [Vice emulator](http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/)
Example code