How to play Lightslayer on Mac
Platforms | Computer |
Game summary
Lightslayer is an action role-playing game played in first person perspective. As a dark elven sorceress, you travel through a vast world, fighting monsters and completing quests in the search for your missing mentor.
Lightslayer was my first commercial game, originally released in the year 2000, almost 20 years ago. This is version 3, which I have upgraded for newer computers. Changes include:
OpenGL-accelerated rendering.
Run at the native full screen resolution, or in a resizeable window.
Full mouse support, in the menus and the actual game.
A few minor user interface and game balance improvements.
The original Wrath of Darkness game included as a bonus.
However, the actual content of the game is untouched, in all of its primitive programmer-art glory. Overall, I think this game has held up incredibly well to the test of time, which is another way of saying that the ugly and clunky aspects of the game were already ugly and clunky when the game was first released.
First released: Dec 2000
Play Lightslayer on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Lightslayer 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).
Lightslayer 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 Lightslayer like you would on any PC.
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