How to play Cowboyana on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

Cowboyana tells the tales of Billy Blue and Rufus Red as cowboys in the Wild West. They spend their days drinking, getting into fights and duels, sleeping, and running around on top of trains. The game requires two players to play at the same time. The game randomly loads any of the available sequences in a loop with no ending. After each sequence, a short impression in shown in text. In the drinking game, players both control the same bottle as they try to down as many drinks as possible. They can hinder each other and generally spill half the bottle on the table. At any point during the drinking, they can decide to draw their guns and start a duel. In other sequences, they either fight alone or together, in the desert or on trains. The characters can move around, jump, shoot and reload.
First released: Jun 2008

Play Cowboyana on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Cowboyana 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).

Cowboyana 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 Cowboyana like you would on any PC.
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