From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: Executable size: limit to acceptability?
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"Matt Firewalker" <arenaproject AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^
ouch. Every time I come up with a name for my games, it's taken.
I was *sure* that freepuzzlearena wasn't taken (I chose it because
"Tetris" was taken), but...

>I'm concerned about what's acceptable with executable size using Allegro to
>create a -large- RPG.  Since I've never done an RPG with graphics (I've done
>other things, but nothing of this proportion), I'm not too sure about exec
>size.  What would be an acceptable size of the executable?

Whatever you can stuff into a zipfile. In most newer machines,
you can shove 16 MB of stuff into DPMI memory.

>Note that I am already using the -s and -O3 switches.

IIRC, -O2 is better than -O3 much of the time.

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