How to play Pearl Harbour: Shadows Over Oahu on Mac

Game summary

On the 7th December 1941, 183 Japanese aircraft and 5 miniature submarines attacked the American fleet in Pearl Harbour sinking or badly damaging 8 battleships, 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers and 7 support ships. Also, 383 aircraft stationed on Oahu were destroyed and 2,323 American service men lost their lives that day. The Japanese only lost 29 aircraft duringtheir attack on Pearl Harbour. You now have the ability to re-write the history books. As a keen-eyed flak gunner, you will need to defend all sections of the naval base and shoot down Japanese Zeros attack in several waves and will also engage American Corsairs in air combat, so avoid shooting down your own air units in the heat of battle.

Play Pearl Harbour: Shadows Over Oahu on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Pearl Harbour: Shadows Over Oahu 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).

Pearl Harbour: Shadows Over Oahu 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 Pearl Harbour: Shadows Over Oahu like you would on any PC.
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