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I have a late 2012 Mac Mini (i7 2.3Ghz, 16GB of RAM) and mostly for fun I was thinking of testing to see how it handles some games I might have here.

Is there a way to see what games run on such a mac OS version? I see in the my library there is a setting to show version 10.5 or 10.6, but I believe Catalina is 10.15.

I am not going to use any tricks to install a later version on it.

So, any ideas?
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That-is-an-Intel-System-so-basically-as-long-as-the-right-system-libraries-are-there-things-should-run-on-that -missapropriated-version-of-BSD.
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trusteft: Is there a way to see what games run on such a mac OS version? I see in the my library there is a setting to show version 10.5 or 10.6, but I believe Catalina is 10.15.
Catalina is indeed 10.15. The options are actually "10.6+" and "10.7+", which is severely outdated and not useful, given that everything is going to be 10.7+ anyway. You can look at the system requirements on the store page for the games you want to test and see if the CPU/GPU/OS version are appropriate for that computer, but there aren't really any tricks to make it easier. Anything that's listed on GOG as Mac compatible is 64-bit, but there are some old 32-bit games that won't work on Catalina. The only way to tell is by looking at the Windows system requirements (bizarrely enough) for a note about the Mac version being 32-bit. There aren't very many games yet that need macOS 11 or later, but any that do would have higher CPU/GPU requirements than that machine has anyway.
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Darvond: That-is-an-Intel-System-so-basically-as-long-as-the-right-system-libraries-are-there-things-shou ld-run-on-that -missapropriated-version-of-BSD.
Completely useless post as usual. Whether it's Intel or not has nothing to do with anything. You've obviously never used a Mac and have no clue how they work, so quit it with your weird obsession with trying to "help" people.
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trusteft: Is there a way to see what games run on such a mac OS version? I see in the my library there is a setting to show version 10.5 or 10.6, but I believe Catalina is 10.15.
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eric5h5: Catalina is indeed 10.15. The options are actually "10.6+" and "10.7+", which is severely outdated and not useful, given that everything is going to be 10.7+ anyway. You can look at the system requirements on the store page for the games you want to test and see if the CPU/GPU/OS version are appropriate for that computer, but there aren't really any tricks to make it easier. Anything that's listed on GOG as Mac compatible is 64-bit, but there are some old 32-bit games that won't work on Catalina. The only way to tell is by looking at the Windows system requirements (bizarrely enough) for a note about the Mac version being 32-bit. There aren't very many games yet that need macOS 11 or later, but any that do would have higher CPU/GPU requirements than that machine has anyway.
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Darvond: That-is-an-Intel-System-so-basically-as-long-as-the-right-system-libraries-are-there-things-shou ld-run-on-that -missapropriated-version-of-BSD.
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eric5h5: Completely useless post as usual. Whether it's Intel or not has nothing to do with anything. You've obviously never used a Mac and have no clue how they work, so quit it with your weird obsession with trying to "help" people.
I think my main issue is because for several years now software developers/sites use decimals in a weird way, so for example 0.12 is higher than 0.5 when obviously it should be, I don't know what they mean, so is 10.5 or 10.6 higher than 10.15 or not? They should be, but I am guessing they are not. And it annoys me a lot.

Anyway, thanks for your reply.
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trusteft: I think my main issue is because for several years now software developers/sites use decimals in a weird way, so for example 0.12 is higher than 0.5 when obviously it should be, I don't know what they mean, so is 10.5 or 10.6 higher than 10.15 or not? They should be, but I am guessing they are not. And it annoys me a lot.
Well, they're just a series of integers, and it's always been like that. 15 is greater than 5 or 6. The dot is just a separator; don't think of them as decimals because they aren't. It's common to see versions like 10.15.7 (final version of Catalina), which is not something you can do with decimals. Not to mention that some regions use "," instead of "." for decimals, like €4,95. Another example: IP addresses, like 192.168.0.1, which isn't a decimal any more than a version number is. Oh, and in some areas phone numbers use a dot: 555.123.4567.

All part of the conspiracy to make numerical input as ambiguous and bug-prone as possible for programmers everywhere. ;)
The last version which works for many old Mac games is 10.14 (Mojave). Catalina and later versions (Intel and ARM) are hit or miss.