How to play Falcon 4.0 BMS on Mac

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Game summary

We're excited about the release of Falcon BMS and hope that it will help revive the Falcon 4.0 community. We've put years of time and effort into this release and hope you enjoy it. What is Falcon 4.0? If you're new to Falcon 4.0, ("F4" for short), F4 is a combat flight simulator originally developed and released December 12, 1998 by MicroProse. It models the Lockheed-Martin F-16C Block 50/52 in a full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula. F4 has been popular among combat sim pilots due to its dynamic war campaign engine, detailed aircraft avionics, and multi-player capabilities. Continual development of the simulation by community members has allowed F4 to live on years after the MicroProse studios were shut down and official development of the sim ceased. Who are we? Benchmark Sims is one of the few remaining F4 development groups comprised of "community members". Our first beta release for an F4 mod was in September of 2003. We've done our best to add still more improvements to F4 in the meanwhile. "Falcon BMS" is now the official name of our community mod for the original Falcon 4.0. What have we accomplished? BMS has worked on an array of features and our goal with the articles is to try and bring back that same excitement the old MicroProse developer's notes gave us all years ago. We could just say something like "we've coded a new flight model" but without any documentation, there would be no appreciation as to just how difficult it was, how long it took to get right, or how detailed it is. We think some of our features will make your jaw drop--it does ours! Some of those features include: Graphics 3d cockpit Terrain engine Multi-player code improvements Flight modeling and physics Artificial Intelligence Avionics Sound engine User Interface Airbase modeling Weather modeling And more! -The Benchmark Sims Team
First released: Sep 2003

Play Falcon 4.0 BMS on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Falcon 4.0 BMS 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).

Falcon 4.0 BMS 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 Falcon 4.0 BMS like you would on any PC.
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