Looks like ppl still get confused about how to install BMS 4.32 U4 correctly, hence I made some quick snapshots of the most important steps…
Edit: if you need even MORE details and screenshots, head over to SimHQ, they’ve got a pretty comprehensive guide there for you (thanks to -Ice for pointing it out to me):
http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3660698/Starting_with_Falcon_4_BMS_Upd#Post36606981) Have the 4.32 vanilla installer as well as all updates (U1/U2/U3/U4) and your original Microprose Falcon 4.0 CD/executable at hand. In my example, I’ve put the installers into T:\Downloads, and my drive I: holds the Falcon CD:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup1.png
2) Extract the main installer (Falcon_BMS_4.32_Setup.zip). After you’ve done that, go to the directory just to make sure that you actually have the Setup.exe and unrar.dll files and the data directory as expected. Take a note of the whole directory path (highlighted in blue in my example), as you will need that path for the update installers:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup2.png
3) Execute (don’t extract) the U1 installer (Falcon_BMS_4.32_Update_1.exe). After confirming the installations instructions, point the “destination folder” to the very same directory path where the Setup.exe of the main installer was, i.e. the path that has been highlighted in blue in the previous step:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup3.png
4) Repeat step 3 for the remaining update installers U2, U3 and U4.
5) After all installers have been executed, navigate to the installer data directory (the path highlighted in blue from step 2, plus “data”) and verify that all the following files are now in there:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup4.png
6) If all the files are there as described in step 5, you’re now good to execute the “Setup.exe” in the directory from step 2. Note: it does not matter whether you installed BMS 4.32 U4 from scratch, or whether you only executed U4 on an existing main+U1+U2+U3 setup directory. You HAVE to have all files in the data directory as described in step 5 in any case.
7a) If you install BMS 4.32 U4 from scratch, the setup program will now ask you where to install BMS. Pick a destination path as you wish, i.e. in my example T:\FalconBMS:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup5a.png
8a) After verifying the files, the setup will show you that you have nothing installed, but the main installer plus U1-U4 available for installation:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup6a.png
7b) If you install BMS 4.32 U4 on top of an existing BMS 4.32 U3 installation, the setup will pick up the existing BMS directory automatically:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup5b.png
8b) After verifying the files, the setup will show you that you have BMS 4.32 main plus U1-U3 installed, and U4 available for installation:
http://www.duncsdomain.com/falcon/images/setup6b.png
9) Click next, make sure all checkboxes are selected in the “choose what to install screen” (you can only select entries which have NOT been installed yet, and the main installer is always mandatory) and let the installer do its thing. That’s it!
Just wanted to say thank you for this post, and stay off the zero post list. I have been absent from Falcon 4.0 for may years and after trolling around on youtube and watching videos of your work. I can honeslty say I may be hooked again.
p.s. if you get hate mail from my GF just ignore it.