How to play Edward Grabowski's The Blue & The Gray on Mac

Game summary

As the Leader of the Federal or Confederate army, you have only four years to defeat the opposition by capturing cities and winning military conflicts. More your divisions across a map of America at the CAMPAIGN level. When two forces meet, you'll battle hand-to-hand to a micro-miniatures battle. But the time, only you can determine the victor...by applying your own knowledge, strategy, and luck. The future of America is in your hands
First released: Nov 1993

Play Edward Grabowski's The Blue & The Gray on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Edward Grabowski's The Blue & The Gray 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).

Edward Grabowski's The Blue & The Gray 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 Edward Grabowski's The Blue & The Gray like you would on any PC.
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