How to play Outlaws: Handful of Missions on Mac

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Game summary

A free mission pack for Outlaws that was made available both online and on free promotional discs. Outlaws: Handful of Missions is a pistol-packin' collection of four single and five multiplayer missions and requires a retail version of Outlaws. It is set in a time period years before the original game. A young James Anderson is serving as a government agent and receives assignments from the attorney general. The single-player missions in which he has to capture gang leaders, are set in a Missouri wharf town, a Spanish villa, and some icy caves in the Rocky Mountains. The other mission features infiltration behind enemy lines during the Civil War. Multiplayer levels are set in towns with a great number of places to hide.
First released: Dec 1997

Play Outlaws: Handful of Missions on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Outlaws: Handful of Missions 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).

Outlaws: Handful of Missions 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 Outlaws: Handful of Missions like you would on any PC.
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