How to play JumpStart Adventures: 5th Grade - Jo Hammet, Kid Detective on Mac

PlatformsComputer

Game summary

Jump Start Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective tells about a kid named Jo Hannet, Kid Detective. When the city of Hoverville has electric problems from the evil Dr. X, Jo goes out to stop him. Go to several stores and places in Hoverville asking the owners for help. If you help them with puzzles, they'll give you something you may need to stop Dr. X. In the meantime try spying on three octopus-haired men!
First released: Oct 1997

Play JumpStart Adventures: 5th Grade - Jo Hammet, Kid Detective on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play JumpStart Adventures: 5th Grade - Jo Hammet, Kid Detective 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).

JumpStart Adventures: 5th Grade - Jo Hammet, Kid Detective 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 JumpStart Adventures: 5th Grade - Jo Hammet, Kid Detective like you would on any PC.
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