How to play Action Stations! on Mac

Game summary

Naval Surface Combat Tactical Simulation during 1922-1945. Contains Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean Theaters. Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers, Shore Batteries and many other naval units engage in deadly, exciting War at Sea. Action Stations! is unique- a combat modeling system designed by an active duty naval officer to test computerized tactical decision support systems has been adapted into a commercial simulation of unparalleled accuracy and authenticity. This is not a toy! Developed from a huge data base, including U.S. Naval War College "Fire Effect System" from 1922-1945, this game is authentic, detailed, sophisticated, challenging- and fun! Simple or Sophisticated: Take full command, or delegate some actions to "computer subordinates". Authentic Scrolling Battle Plot tracks your forces and enemy units. This is not a "squares" game, but what you would expect in a warship's Combat Information Center. 21 Displays/Status Boards gives you a clear, instant access to information on individual units and your entire fleet. Detailed, Thorough Treatment of smoke, starshells, flares, searchlights, radar, shore batteries, stack gasses, aircraft recce and spotting, burning oil slicks, capsized hulks, weather, more! A wily, cunning computer opponent, or play a friend. Seven levels of difficulty. Accurate "Detect to Engage" Sequencing for gunnery. Control guns in local control or by a gun director, manual or automatic. Torpedo Fire Control Computer similar in precision to World War II models. Authentic "torpedo spreads", tracked to less than a yard. Ships are Modified Exhaustively: 42 Hit zones, 14 armor locations, list and stability, counterflooding, fires, breakdowns and repairs, damage control, engineering capabilities, flooded or exploded magazines, much, much more. Build Scenario capability to make your own scenarios. Generate Scenario program allows you to direct the computer to create an infinite number of new situations! Plus a Save Game feature to
First released: Dec 1990

Play Action Stations! on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Action Stations! on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Action Stations! installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Action Stations! like you would on any PC.
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