How to play Color Bar Generator on Mac
Game summary
The test pattern cartridge contains 15 displays that can be used to check or align most adjustments for a black and white or color television. One pattern is also included to check the alignment of the color generation circuitry on the Atari VCS ™ console circuit board. A 1kHz and 3kHz tone can be selected with the DIFFICULTY SWITCHES, and the patterns can be selected by scrolling forward or backwards through the list via the GAME SELECT or GAME RESET console switches.
* Title page and VCS color adjustment pattern
* Color bar pattern
* Grey scale pattern
* Cross hatch pattern
* Dot pattern
* Vertical lines
* Horizontal lines
* Center cross
* Circle pattern
* Wide vertical bars
* Window pattern
* White screen
* Red screen
* Green screen
* Blue screen
First released: Feb 1984
Play Color Bar Generator on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Color Bar Generator 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).
Color Bar Generator 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 Color Bar Generator like you would on any PC.
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