Understanding Game ADF filenames

[Foebane]

I have an interest in Amiga games, and I've come across a collection of 20,000 or so games that are named like these examples here:

Aaargh! (1988)(Melbourne House)[cr PRD].adf
Abandoned Places 2 (1993)(I.C.E.)(En-De)(Disk 1 of 5)[cr Crystal].adf
Advanced LASER CHESS (1989)(Compute Publications)[cr Piranhas].adf
Airball (1989)(Microdeal)[cr Black Monks][t +1].adf

I can't imagine who could come up with a more complicated naming convention for such files!

I can only assume that the first thing is the game title, the year of release in brackets, the publisher in brackets, and so forth.

But what does [cr ?] in square brackets mean? Cracked, so the copy protection is removed? Who are PRD? Who are Black Monks? Is one group better than the other?

Lastly, what does [t +1] mean? I have no idea about that at all.

This collection I've got has about, on average, half-a-dozen variations of each game, so I can imagine once I've sorted through them all I'll only end up with something like 4000 games.

Why complicate it like this?

I also have a collection of C64 games, but they're all zipped, meaning two double-clicks every time I want to play one in C64 Forever!

Lunacy!

[antonvaltaz]

Full explanation here: http://www.tosecdev.org/index.php/to...ing-convention

[atchoo]

http://www.tosecdev.org/index.php/to...ing-convention

EDIT: eheheh!

[Foebane]

Ah, I see, so it's official. Thank you!