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 my pet game engine project
 be warned: unstable, buggy and prone to random breakage.
 
-to run, do 'make && ./main'
+to run, do 'cc -o nob nob.c' && './nob' && './main'
+
 to modify, take a look at 'main.c' and 'trig.c'
 
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