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Revision as of 13:41, 12 February 2006

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    NAME (PLATFORM EXTRA LANGUAGE)
-If PLATFORM = PC, treat it as empty. If LANGUAGE=English, treat it as empty. If all three are missing, the desc becomes simply
+Missing/unknown information is left our. So, if none of the extra values are known, the description simply becomes:
    NAME
+An alternate approach would be to display "Unknown" or "Unk" instead, but it's not clear whether that would provide any advantage to the regular user.
-For the language, the two letter abbreviation is used. For the platforms, the following short names are used:
+For the language, the two letter abbreviation as returned by Commmon::getLanguageCode() is used (possibly converted to upper case). For the platforms, the following short names are used:
-  PC, DOS, Win, Mac, Amiga, Atari, FM-TOWNS
+* Acorn
+* Amiga
+* Atari
+* C64
+* DOS
+* FM-TOWNS
+* Mac
+* NES
+* SEGA
+* Win
+Currently, the platform functions in common/util.h do not provide these values. We could either modify getPlatformCode() or getPlatformDescription() accordingly, or add a new getPlatformShortDescription() function.
 Typical values for EXTRA include "Demo", "VGA", "EGA", "CD", "Floppy", "Talkie"
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 Another example:
-   ("The Secret of Monkey Island", PC, "CD", French)
+   ("The Secret of Monkey Island", DOS, "CD", French)
 becomes
-   The Secret of Monkey Island (CD fr)
+   The Secret of Monkey Island (DOS CD fr)
+A third example:
+  ("Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror", Unknown, "Demo", English)
+becomes
+  Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror (Demo en)