How to play Electric Crayon Deluxe: Dinosaurs Are Forever on Mac

Game summary

This computer coloring book is another part in the Electric Crayon series and it has 26 pictures of different Dinosaurs to color. Pictures could be colored from a palette of 16 colors. A mix button would "mix" the current color with the 15 other colors and give a total of 256 colors. Choosing a color and clicking in the picture do a color fill in the area clicked. The finished, or in progress, coloring was automatically saved to disk. Player may also remove all colors applied previously to start coloring from the very beginning. Pictures could be printed with, or without, a monthly calendar, description, message, banner, etc.
First released: Dec 1988

Play Electric Crayon Deluxe: Dinosaurs Are Forever on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Electric Crayon Deluxe: Dinosaurs Are Forever 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).

Electric Crayon Deluxe: Dinosaurs Are Forever 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 Electric Crayon Deluxe: Dinosaurs Are Forever like you would on any PC.
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