How to play Darius+ on Mac
Game summary
NOTE: "Darius+" is the Amiga, Atart ST, and ZX Spectrum port of the original Darius published by The Edge and developed by Softek. This is a different port than the title "Darius Plus", which was produced by Bits Laboratory and NEC Avenue for the TurboGrafx-16 PC-Engine.
Three PC Engine ports were produced by NEC Avenue for the Japanese market in 1990, titled "Super Darius" on March 16, "Darius Plus" on September 21 and the only commercially-released HuCard that has enhanced support for the PC Engine SuperGrafx, and the limited promotional title of "Darius Alpha (α)". All three PC Engine versions were developed by Bits Laboratory.
During the same year, a home computer version of the game titled "Darius+" (unrelated to the similarly-titled PC Engine port) was published by The Edge and developed by Softek for the Amiga, Atari ST and ZX Spectrum in Europe.
First released: Dec 1990
Play Darius+ on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Darius+ 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).
Darius+ 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 Darius+ like you would on any PC.
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