How to play Tzar: Gold Edition on Mac

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Game summary

This release covers all previous Tzar games and scenarios, adding a new campaign as well as a map creator. This last feature allows for the creation of adventures with special events, conversations and rules and the ban of technologies and units at the player's pleasure. These maps are 100% compatible with the game and they can be accessed directly through it. The aforementioned new campaign is focused on Gengis Khan's empire, showcasing it in a total of two scenarios.
First released: Dec 2002

Play Tzar: Gold Edition on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Tzar: Gold Edition 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).

Tzar: Gold Edition 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 Tzar: Gold Edition like you would on any PC.
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