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README.TXT

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 ***** Welcome to Monkey2! *****
 
-The master branch is effectively the 'release candidates' branch, so should be relatively stable. All development work is now done on the develop branch.
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-Grabbing the most recently tagged version is recommended if you just want to give monkey2 a try.
+If you are reading this on github, please note there are prebuilt versions of monkey2 (with complete source code) available from https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkey2.
 
 
 ***** Building monkey2 on Windows *****
 
-1) Install the mingw-64 compiler. There is a self-extracting archive of mingw-64 that has been tested with monkey2 here:
+1) Unless you are using one of the prebuilt releases, you will need to install the mingw-64 compiler. There is a self-extracting archive of mingw-64 that has been tested with monkey2 here:
 
 http://monkeycoder.co.nz/get-file?file=i686-6.2.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v5-rev1.exe
 
-If you install this to the monkey2 'devtools' directory, the following steps should 'just work'.
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-The public release of mingw-64 is available here: 
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-https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
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-When installing, you should select 'i686' for 'architecture', 'posix' for 'threads' and 'dwarf' for 'exception'.
+If you install this to the monkey2 'devtools' directory, the following steps should 'just work' (ha!).
 
 2) Open a command prompt and change to the 'monkey2\scripts' directory.
 
 3) Enter 'rebuildall2go' and hit return. Wait...
 
-4) If all went well, you should end up with a 'Monkey2 (Windows)' exe in the monkey2 directory.
+4) If all went well, you should end up with a 'Monkey2 (Windows)' exe in the monkey2 directory. Run this to launch the Ted2go IDE.
 
-5) You should now be able to build and run monkey2 apps. There is a simple 'hello-world.monkey2' test in the monkey2 directory, and some simple demos in the '/bananas' directory.
+5) You should now be able to build and run monkey2 apps. There are some samples apps in the monkey2/bananas directory.
 
 
 ***** Building monkey2 on MacOS/Linux *****
@@ -37,9 +29,9 @@ When installing, you should select 'i686' for 'architecture', 'posix' for 'threa
 
 3) Enter './rebuildall2go.sh' and hit return. Wait...
 
-4) If all went well, you should end up with a 'Monkey2 (...)' app in the monkey2 directory.
+4) If all went well, you should end up with a 'Monkey2 (...)' app in the monkey2 directory. Run this to launch the Ted2go IDE.
 
-5) You should now be able to build and run monkey2 apps. There is a simple 'hello-world.monkey2' test in the monkey2 directory, and some simple demos in the '/bananas' directory.
+5) You should now be able to build and run monkey2 apps. There are some samples apps in the monkey2/bananas directory.
 
 
 ***** More information *****
@@ -48,4 +40,8 @@ Monkey2 patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/monkey2
 
 Monkey2 development blog: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/
 
-Monkey2 development forums: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/forums
+Monkey2 itch.io page: https://blitzresearch.itch.io/monkey2
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+Monkey2 github page: https://github.com/blitz-research/monkey2
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+Ted2go github page: https://github.com/engor/Ted2Go