How to play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance on Mac

Game summary

Pool of Radiance was the first adaptation of TSR's Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D or D&D) fantasy role-playing game for home computers, becoming the first episode in a four-part series of D&D computer adventure games. The player starts by building a party of up to six characters, deciding the race, sex, class and ability scores for each.
First released: Oct 1988

Play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance 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).

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance 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 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance like you would on any PC.
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