How to play Roland Ahoy! on Mac

Game summary

After loading, press the DEL key and the ship is now under your control, in the Map Scene. To move the ship up, down, left or right use either the AMSOFT JY1 Joystick or the cursor control keys. To move from the map !o another scene, you must dock the ship against the quays (the grey zones). Your first visit must be to Powder Quay to collect ammunition. After Roland has collected ammunition, he must move as far as possible to the left and then jump on board using both the fire button and left direction simultaneously. The map will then reappear with the ship in the appropriate position. To fire a cannon ball or to make Roland jump upwards, press the joystick button or the key marked X on the keyboard. To make Roland run left or right use the joystick or the left and right cursor control keys. After losing a life, the boom is rebuilt, but Roland retains the ammunition and treasure that is on board the ship. After treasure has been deposited at the back of the cave, or has been stolen from the harbour, Roland boards the ship automatically as he reaches it. The game then returns to the map scene and you must repeat the sequence to obtain further items of treasure. There are many items of treasure which are stolen one by one. After obtaining three of a kind a new treasure appears in the harbour. NOTE; The program prevents the moves below, so no cheating is possible! Once you have collected cannon balls, you may only use them to fire at the boom. Firing is not possible at point-blank range. You may not enter Powder Quay with ammunition or treasure. You may not enter the harbour with treasure. You may not visit Treasure Cove without treasure.

Play Roland Ahoy! on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Roland Ahoy! 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).

Roland Ahoy! 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 Roland Ahoy! like you would on any PC.
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