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What is Empowered Programmer (EP from now on) ? It is an attempt to distill out the essence of what's needed to create a Windows program. EP's deepest purpose in life is simple and direct. This is to create Win32 executables at a basic level ie. close to the machine and OS, and at the same time in an easy way.

So EP is something of an IDE. Nothing else is needed except Win32 documentation (some background in assembly language and hexadecimal notation will be helpful). EP reads a text file written in a particular form and structure and converts it into a Windows .exe file. That's it.

It is not linked to or based on any particular language like C, Basic and so on. It has a mild assembler like syntax but is not a full fledged assembler. As I said before EP's goal is to write Windows programs and as such it supports only a subset of the total assembler instructions available -- only that subset which is needed to write a Windows program.

Before going further please download and start EP and open one of the example files, basic.asm preferably. You will be seeing the kind of file that EP understands. Look through this file. Probably you will also get an intuitive picture of the file structure. Now use the Compile | Run menu or press F11 . And lo ! basic.exe will come alive in the memory banks of your computer.

EP has it's learning curve but it's definitely not steeper than any of the modern programming languages and the rewards are tangible --small, compact programs, a fuller understanding of your program and a closer knowledge of the machine and the OS.

Note: The trial version of EP has no time limitation or number of runs limitation. It can create .exe files. The only limitation it has is that it cannot debug files more than 1000 lines long. You will be able to personally remove this limitation in the code when you register. Registration was just $39 , now free ! Just email me here with 'ep registration pack' in the subject line.