Hey ya'll.

Question:

On a game I realized that an original port released for Macintosh might not be marked appropriate. So I sought some clarification, but sort found more than I knew what to do with.

The port was released for the Mac Classic. I wasn't sure if that was like... "Mac" or "Apple II"

Is, like, Apple II the computer and Macintosh the OS? Just trying to make sense of this:

https://imgur.com/pUP2MOp (not sure the code for posting a picture)

notes:

From what I can determine, there was the original Apple I; I did find a list of games specific to this: http://www.callapple.org/soft/ap1/games.html

Then the Apple II came out, with variants. It has plenty of games, and an incomplete list can be found on this wikipedia.

Apple IIGS came out next. There is an incomplete list for games associated with this on wikipedia as well.

IN the past IIGS has sort of just fallen under the umbrella of Apple II for the purposes of sr.com so far.

The thing is though is that Apple II is 8-bit, Apple II GS is actually 16-bit. I'm not sure though if a game that came out for the Apple II could be played on an Apple II GS, and if so if that would basically make the game to run faster in anyway. Also not sure if such an issue would occur with emulation of these two systems.

Apple III also came out later, but was a business oriented computer and a massive commercial failure with serious problems with heat displacement. I can't find any mention of a game existing for this system.

However, I've like, never used a Mac before, let alone when I was wee lad with my DOS.

I don't think speedrunning Apple II games on specific Apple II emulator will necessary pick up meaningfully, but just some notes for future considerations, since this whole area might need clarification in the future.

Apple II software was compatible with all Apple II (c/e/gs) computers, unless it was made specifically for the Apple IIGS, and they didn't run any faster on a GS. Macintosh used a different OS and the software is not compatible.

That's good then. Seems like the only problem would a game that was released on Apple II and the on a later version specifically updated for a later version. If any game exists thought, it's the exceptional to the rule and could be handled on a single leaderboard.

So apparently the OS for early apples was nameless but appears to be referred to as "Classic Mac OS" and ends in 2001 with the introduction of Mac OS X.

Still not quite clear to me, for the purposes of this site and the platforms listed what exactly falls in between Apple II and Mac, if anything, or where the line is drawn exactly.

For example. The Lemmings port for Macintosh came in 1993. This is before Apple even branded the OS as "Mac OS." However, it seems by 1987, the Apple II series is over, and Mac produces the Macintosh II series computers. So I'm wondering if that transition from Apple II computers to Mac II computers marks the crossover into "Mac" platform territory.