How to play Adventure Construction Set on Mac

Game summary

Play 8 great adventures... Or write your own. Rivers of Light- A new Stuart Smith epic. Set at the dawn of human history in Ancient Egypt and the Near East, this new epic adventure from the author of Ali Baba and Return of Heracles embraces a map containing over 140 different regions and rooms, plus a cast of hundreds and enough challenging and ingenious puzzles to delight even the most demanding adventurer. 7 complete mini adventures: There's a simple tutorial adventure for first timers, plus one mystery story, one original adaptation from Alice In Wonderland, a historical drama (you help Washington cross the Delaware), and 3 more called Deep Dark Dungeon, In the Nazi Castle, and Save the Galaxy. 3 basic construction sets included: You get a Fantasy Set, a Spy/Mystery Set and a Science Fiction Set. Each comes with graphics, music and sound effects, a wardrobe full of creature and character costumes, and a prop room crammed with objects and special effects. Do as much or as little work as you like. Build the whole adventure yourself of ask the computer to do it for you. A canvas as big as your imagination: Each adventure can contain up to 500 different creatures, one main map and up to 15 map regions with up to 16 rooms and 300 props per region, plus up to 335 different text messages to give your adventures texture and depth. Use the parts in the 3 basic construction sets or make your own.
First released: Dec 1984

Play Adventure Construction Set on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Adventure Construction Set 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).

Adventure Construction Set 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 Adventure Construction Set like you would on any PC.
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