How to play James Pond: Codename Robocod on Mac

Game summary

James Pond, one of the true gaming legends, returns for his greatest adventure yet in Codename: RoboCod. With scores of mind bending levels, cunningly hidden rooms, topped off with some of the best cartoon-style graphics around makes James Pond – Codename: RoboCod on Nintendo Switch a true collectors classic. Urgent communication: James Pond – Codename: RoboCod has got himself embroiled in some very ‘fishy’ business indeed, involving his arch-nemesis, the notorious super-villain…‘Dr Maybe’! James Pond launches himself back into battle, to thwart the evil Dr Maybe and his dastardly plans for World domination. With help from his amazing new robotic suit, James Pond must traverse bizarre worlds, jumping, squashing, climbing, stretching and squishing Bouncing Bears, Crazy Cadillacs, Whirling Dervishes, Chocolate Mountains and not forgetting devious and wacky ‘end-of level’ Bosses!
First released: Apr 2019

Play James Pond: Codename Robocod on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play James Pond: Codename Robocod 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).

James Pond: Codename Robocod 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 James Pond: Codename Robocod like you would on any PC.
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