• Microsoft Windows
• Microsoft Visual Studio
• The Netwide Assembler

Windows 8.1 was the most common version at the time of writing. Any edition should do.

Visual Studio 2013 Community Edition is freely available from http://www.visualstudio.com/.

Download the latest zip from here.

1. Copy nasm.exe from the zip file to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\bin or similar path depending on your system.

2. Launch Visual Studio. Open the Team Explorer panel. Clone a new local git repository.

3. Open the boot.sln solution and switch to the Solution Explorer panel.

Right Click on the solution and select build.