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+## Developer environment
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+Cxbx-Reloaded is developed in C++ using [Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community](https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/). (The older 2015 version works too).
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 ## Debugging during emulation
 
 Since Cxbx-Reloaded launches another process instance of itself for emulation, debugging in Visual Studio doesn't work out of the box.