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 # Mandel-6502
 
-Work-in-progress Mandelbrot fractal viewer for Atari 8-bit home computers. Mostly an excute to write an integer multiplication routine for the 6502 for practice.
+Work-in-progress Mandelbrot fractal viewer for Atari 8-bit home computers. Mostly an excuse to write an integer multiplication routine for the 6502 for practice.
 
 Goals:
 * have fun learning 6502 assembly
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 ## Deps and build instructions
 
-I'm using `ca65` as a macro assembler, and have a Unix-style `Makefile` for building. Should work fairly easily on Linux and Mac. Might work on "raw' Windows but I use WSL for that.
+I'm using `ca65` as a macro assembler, and have a Unix-style `Makefile` for building. Should work fairly easily on Linux and Mac. Might work on "raw" Windows but I use WSL for that.
 
 Currently produces a `.xex` executable, which can be booted up in common Atari emulators and some i/o devices.