How to play Silvern Castle: The Lost Crystal Orb on Mac
Game summary
Silvern Castle is a fantasy RPG that looks and feels very much like the original Wizardry. The player controls a party of 6 adventurers, chosen from orc, human, dwarf, elf, and gnome races. Characters can be fighters, clerics, thieves, or mages. The goal is to explore a large 1st person wire-frame maze. The player must travel continually downwards to eventually procure the Crystal Orb. A menu-driven down with a store, magic shop, and adventurer's guild sits atop the dungeon. Combat is text-based, with player and enemies parties taking turns attacking.
First released: Dec 1999
Play Silvern Castle: The Lost Crystal Orb on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)
The easiest way to play Silvern Castle: The Lost Crystal Orb 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).
Silvern Castle: The Lost Crystal Orb 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 Silvern Castle: The Lost Crystal Orb like you would on any PC.
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