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BMS is basically a free standalone sequel, albeit one that – for legal reasons – won't install unless it sees an original F4 disc in your CD drive. Radars, targeting systems, HUDs, data link modelling… everything has been reworked by people that either have first-hand experience of fondling
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graphics as well as one of the earliest commercially released games to require a 286 or better PC. In comparison to the older game, this version allows external viewing of the player aircraft, enables a "head-to-head" multiplayer mode, and includes the
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was sold as being the first of a series of inter-linked military simulations that
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