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HC - Harpoon Classic
WinHarp - First Windows version of HC, prior to this was the original Harpoon game in DOS
HC97 - Port of WinHarp to Win32, Windows 95 look and feel, added EC2000 battleset
HC2002 - Bug fixing of HC97
HCGold - Further development of HC2002, added platform editor
WestPac Beta - Beta version of HC Gold with a new battleset, Western Pacific
HC2005 - What became HCE with some extra care and feeding
HCCE - Harpoon Classic: Commander's Edition (later renamed to HCE)
HCE - Harpoon: Commander's Edition (HC variant, current HC version)

BattleSet ™ - A collection of scenarios, maps, and optionally database bundled together for use in Harpoon. Stored on disk as a .res and a .rsr file.

Game Components:
GE - Game Engine - WinHarp32.exe - Where you play the game
SE - Scenario Editor - WSCENEDT.EXE - Where you build and modify scenarios
PE - Platform Editor - pfBuild2005.mdb - Where you edit the platform database - HCRE
SC - Scenario Converter - cvtscen.exe - EC2000 to EC2003 scenario converter
BB - BattleSet Builder - BSBuilder.exe - Compile battlesets


Reproduced from original at http://harpgamer.com/harpforum/index.php?showtopic=2082

What is a "LAM". It keeps popping up on bases. Land Attack Missile?

Yup