https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?38540-Falcon-BMS-4-34-U3-Incremental-Installer

Ladies and Gentlemen,

on behalf of the entire BMS development team, I am happy to announce that the latest iteration of the?Billion Soft Falcon 4.0?total conversion modification -?Benchmark Sims 4.34 U3?- is available for you to enjoy as of RIGHT NOW!

BMS 4.34 U3 requires a legit installation of a Falcon 4.0 (all older and newer versions are accepted alike, i.e. Microprose, Hasbro, GOG, Steam, Retroism). The check is performed both at setup time and every time you start BMS. If no valid installation is found, BMS will exit with a corresponding error message.

U3 is an?incremental update on top of 4.34 base + U1 + U2, so you need to have the?BMS 4.34 Full Installer?package and?Update 1?and?Update 2?available on your PC. You can both update your existing 4.34 base + U1 + U2 installation as well as perform a fresh 4.34 base + U1 + U2 + U3 installation from scratch, as you like. See the installation instructions below for details.


This mod may not be used for any commercial purposes. Any such use may constitute a violation of the intellectual property of Billion Soft (Hong Kong) Limited and the non-commercial Terms and Conditions under which Benchmark Sims make this mod available to you.


Installation instructions (they will be shown as well once you run the U3 installer):

DESTINATION FOLDER: Update 3 must be targeted at the original Falcon BMS 4.34 Setup folder, NOT at your Falcon BMS installation location! After the update installer has been finished, it will run the Falcon BMS Setup program to either apply the update to an existing BMS 4.34 base + U1 + U2 installation (choose 'Manage product updates'), or perform a fresh 4.34 base + U1 + U2 + U3 installation from scratch.

CONFIG FILE: U3 does not replace your existing config file.

Step-by-step details:

(1) The pre-requirement for installing the update is to have the original BMS 4.34 Setup folder available, with U1 + U2 already applied. That is the one with the blue colored Setup.exe. Take a note on the folder name where this exe is. This folder is NOT your actual game folder that you use to start BMS itself. It's the folder wherever you downloaded and extracted the original BMS 4.34 base installer.

(2) Note: You need the original BMS 4.34 Setup folder + U1 + U2, as U3 is incremental only (like all BMS updates).

(3) Next, RUN (do not unzip) the U3 installer. It will ask you where the BMS setup folder is. Select the folder that you have identified in the 1st step.

(4) Note: Running the U3 installer will NOT actually install U3! Instead, it will update your original BMS 4.34 Setup + U1 + U2 folder to include the new U3 data.

(4) After the U3 installer has finished, it will run the blue colored Setup.exe that you have identified in the 1st step. Either perform a fresh new installation, or update your existing 4.34 base + U1 + U2 installation by choosing 'Manage product updates'. U3 will now be shown in addition to the 4.34 base + U1 + U2 installation.

(5) After the update, when starting BMS, the version string in the BMS UI will now read:
Falcon BMS 4.34.3 (x64) Build?21079