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@@ -3,4 +3,6 @@ My Conway's Game of Life project
 
 This is just a little side project to work on optimization skills and mess around with different patterns in Conway's Game of Life.
 
-Download the project and open it in eclipse to edit, or to just run the project download and run the attached jar(located in the included jar folder).
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+Download the project and open it in eclipse to edit, or to just run the project download and run the attached jar(located in the included jar folder).
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+Note: Requires Java 9
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