[comp.sys.ibm.pc] overlay question

tod@argus.UUCP (Tod Gordon) (03/13/90)

I am currently working on a PC graphics and communications package
that is a real hog and in bad need of some overlays. We are considering
purchasing an extended version of Plink86 that will handle the overlay
design work. Sage software, the makers of Plink86, bought the Overlay
Architect and Overlay Optimizer tools from At Last! software to bundle
with their product. 

I have never worked with overlays before, and my main concern is whether
or not the overlay version will take up much more disk space; our program
now will run on 2 360K floppies and we are interested in keeping this
setup. We can live with 50-60K worth of extra files, but not much more.
Can someone with some overlay experience tell me if this can be managed?
Our program has about 500-600 modules, the executable is about 290K and
we have about 100K of resident tools loaded too. Also, can anyone who
has used these overlay tools from At Last tell me if they are as good
as they claim?
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Tod Gordon (tod@argus.njit.edu, tdg1465@hertz.njit.edu)