How to play Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

The ace detective is now an out-of-luck duck. Duckman, famed private dick and wise-cracking hero has just discovered his show is gone and so is his family. What fowl work is this? Scour the seamy underbelly of a city that doesn't care, in more than 80 different scenes in 40 locations. Explore a zany, anything-can-happen world filled with humorous creatures, deadly traps, and more than 10,000 frames of animation. Features: -The jokes and the bullets keep flying as Duckman runs amok with Cornfed, Bernice, Ajax, and the whole cast of wacky characters. -Voices from original cast members including Tim Curry, Nancy Travis, Dweezil Zappa, and Gregg Berger. -35 fully interactive characters waiting to clue you in or take you down. -Solve killer puzzles (emphasis on kill), face deadly traps (emphasis on dead), in this comic send-up of detective stories and all-American family values.
First released: May 1997

Play Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick 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).

Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick 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 Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick like you would on any PC.
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