How to play The Jelly Bean Factory on Mac

Game summary

A DOS game where players must clear the board by aligning jelly beans. Coloured blocks, or jelly beans fall from the top of the screen. Each bean has three coloured balls in it and the player must position them so that when they hit the bottom of the screen they make rows of three or more of the same colour. The colour sequence of each bean can be altered as it falls, there are reject beans that are hard to remove and there are clearing beans that remove all beans that match the first colour they make contact with. The game is controlled either by the keyboard or by a keyboard/joystick combination. It has optional sound, a high score table, four levels of difficulty, nine levels, and other customizable options.
First released: Nov 1993

Play The Jelly Bean Factory on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play The Jelly Bean Factory 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).

The Jelly Bean Factory 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 The Jelly Bean Factory like you would on any PC.
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