How to play Paintball NET on Mac

Game summary

After nearly 2 decades, Paintball Net is back! Play paintball online! Go head to head against players from around the world! Paint each other pink and cyan! Mark up the simple-minded bots so the machines learn who’s boss! Paint the trees, the grass, and the sides of mountains! All without stinging welts, steaming masks, and poison ivy! Multiplayer, online, and pain free. What more do you want??? Do you want to play in PVP “battle royales”? Do you want survival games, team games, and more? Do you want to modify your equipment so it fits your style? Do you want sci-fi equipment like infrared scanners and Predator-like refracto suits? Paintball Net has all of that! Plus, Paintball Net has always been as much a community as a game. So don’t be intimidated by experienced players. Ask questions. Hang out. Make friends. Then paint them funny colors! =) Originally online from 1996-2000, Paintball Net’s 2D PVP experience predates Google! Windows 95 was still new! I had hair! If you’re looking for a retro-MMO game, Paintball Net has serious 90’s cred. 🙂 If you played back then, there have been some changes–for example, PBTerm has been replaced with your browser–but at its core, Paintball Net is the game you remember!
First released: Jun 2019

Play Paintball NET on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Paintball NET 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).

Paintball NET 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 Paintball NET like you would on any PC.
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