How to play Dark Sun Pictures' Dark Sun - The Space Shooter on Mac

Game summary

Conquer the universe as a tiger alien. Bring in your friends from among the Zylons (praying mantis), Altaren (eagles), Alcorians (ants), Xendoids (dinosaurs), and Slimalacticans (a loose confederation of slimes, amoeboids, worms, fungi, and frungii). What is a frungii you ask? Play and find out.

Play Dark Sun Pictures' Dark Sun - The Space Shooter on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Dark Sun Pictures' Dark Sun - The Space Shooter 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).

Dark Sun Pictures' Dark Sun - The Space Shooter 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 Dark Sun Pictures' Dark Sun - The Space Shooter like you would on any PC.
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