How to play Barney Bear Goes to the Farm on Mac

Game summary

Join Barney Bear on a fun-filled trip to his grandparent's farm! Barney Bear Goes To The Farm is a colorful, musical game for children ages 3-8. Barney Bear must wake up early to help with farm chores such as milking the cow and feeding the chicks. This short interactive story of a day on the farm leads to an evening in the farm house, complete with a warm fire and plenty of time to hear some stories and play some games. Barney Bear Goes To The Farm includes ten short "I Can Read" stories, educational stories called "The Seed" and "Healthy Bears," a "What Belongs?" game, a mix-up-the parts scarecrow and a complete painting program with a dozen fill-in-the-color pictures. This is a game full of surprises and discovery that allows even very young children to play without any adult supervision.
First released: Dec 1990

Play Barney Bear Goes to the Farm on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Barney Bear Goes to the Farm 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).

Barney Bear Goes to the Farm 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 Barney Bear Goes to the Farm like you would on any PC.
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