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Chapter 1 ■ Setting Up a <strong>Java</strong> 8 Game <strong>Development</strong> Environment<br />

Be sure to match the <strong>Java</strong> JDK 8 software that you download to your OS and bit level (x86 signifies a 32-bit-level OS).<br />

Most modern-day workstations use a 64-bit Linux, Mac, Solaris (Oracle), Windows 7, or Windows 8 OS. This will be<br />

specified with the x64 delineation after the name of the OS.<br />

To find out the bit level of the OS, on Windows 7, open the Start Menu, right-click the Computer entry, and<br />

select the Properties option, at the bottom of the context-sensitive menu. On Windows 8, you click Start (a window<br />

pane icon at the bottom left of your desktop if you are in Windows 7 desktop mode) and then the down-arrow icon<br />

at the bottom left, then click the PC Settings purple gear icon and finally the PC Info entry at the bottom left of the<br />

screen. In both use cases, there should then be a text entry that says System type and either 32-bit Operating System<br />

or 64-bit Operating System.<br />

Now that you have downloaded the <strong>Java</strong> JDK 8 installer, the next thing that you need to do is download is<br />

NetBeans IDE 8.0. Do a Google search for the term NetBeans 8.0, as is shown at the top of Figure 1-5,<br />

and click the Download search result option, which will take you to the NetBeans IDE 8.0.1 Download page<br />

(currently https://netbeans.org/downloads). If you want to keep both tabs open in the browser, as I did, then<br />

right-click the Download link, and select the Open link in new tab option.<br />

Figure 1-5. Google the term “NetBeans 8.0,” open the NetBeans IDE 8.0.1 Download page, and download all versions<br />

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