This SC4 Devotion LEX Legacy Pack features the commercial lot sets by the legendary BSC BATer JMyers (JFM), which had been available on the Lot Exchange (LEX) at SC4 Devotion. It includes the contents of 8 previously separate downloads.
After battling a number of technical issues, software incompatibility ultimately shuttered the LEX (at least in its familiar form from 2007 onward) in June 2023, and this package is designed to collect these dependencies in an easy-to-use form, allowing users to install them all in one go, or carefully select exactly which packs they wish to install.

Please note that this pack may receive updates in the near future. Do not redistribute without asking first, mostly as doing so would complicate efforts to properly maintain, update, and provide technical support for the pack.

ChangeLog:

• general clean-up
• As part of the Project ZIP and LEX Restoration efforts, there has been some changes to the original uploads: 
• there is the introduction of BSC BATProps JMyers - Commercial Pack.dat, which contains all of the commercial building models and there are now newly added building props for each (see the index image in the ~Documents folder)
• The formerly included props with BSC JMyers Small Shops Vol06 have been MOVED to be part of the BSC MEGA Props - JMyers Common Props.dat since the release of the BSC Common Dependencies Pack Version 7

Installation:

This package utilizes a Java-based installer (similar to the one used with the Network Addon Mod), and can also be opened and installed manually using 7-Zip or Keka.

To install it, you'll either need the Java Runtime Environment to run the installer--Adoptium's open-source edition is recommended--or a zip tool capable of opening the installer to allow manual installation. For Windows/Linux, use 7-zip, and for macOS, use Keka.

Once into the installer, after agreeing to the terms for the package, click to the Files tab to select which files you wish to install (making no changes here will install everything). To expand options, click the small "+" next to the name of the section.

Then, click to the Location tab to set up an installation location (this should be the root of your My Documents/SimCity 4/Plugins folder). After this, click over to the Install tab, and click "Start installation" to begin the installation procedure. When installation is complete, the tab pop up a message indicating it, after which you are safe to close the installer.

To avoid conflicts, please, it is highly recommended to use any of the third party cleanitol tools and remove any previous versions of the files from your plugins.
In the ~Documents folder in the main ZIP in the Prop-Texture Catalogue Index and Cleanitol/ folder you will find the Cleanitol_SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC JMyers Commercial Compilation.txt and by using either the newer nos.17's SC4 Cleanitol or the older BSC Cleanitol tool you can search and remove the old and outdated versions of these files. Again to avoid possible conflicts and glitches it is highly recommended to run either of these tools.

Bear in mind that this Collection contains Prop pack(s) only available with this upload. Those prop packs can be used and referenced by other contents may not part of this collection as dependencies. If a 3rd party upload references one of the prop packs available in this Collection, you don't need to install everything, you can select and install only the referenced prop pack. All prop packs (and the lot packs as well) have individual cleanitol files (besides the main Cleanitol_SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC JMyers Commercial Compilation.txt) and they have Prop Catalogue index images as a help for lotters.

Dependencies:

The following files are required in order for the contents of this package to appear correctly (i.e., no "brown boxes" or missing textures) (the below listed dependencies are covering a full install; for dependencies for individual collections see the list of contents section for the names, then you will find the updated old readme files for each contents in the ~Documents/BSC_Readmes/JMyers/ folder within the ZIP):

• BSC BATProps JMyers - Commercial Pack - INCLUDED
• SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Common Dependencies Pack v9e (and above)
  The below listed dependencies are all can be found in the hereby linked dependency pack compilation.
• BSC Essentials v2026a
• BSC MEGA Props - JMyers Common Props
• BSC MEGA Props CP Vol01
• BSC MEGA Props CP Vol02

• BSC Textures Vol01
• BSC TexturePack Cycledogg V01

Credits:

The following BSC members contributed models, textures, and modding support to this collection:

• JMyers (JFM)

This package was assembled by Tyberius06.

Special Thanks

Webmaster & administration staff at SC4Evermore and SC4 Devotion.

And possibly others who may not have been mentioned. If your name has been forgotten or you're not on the list, then drop us a line, as it has been difficult to keep track of anyone/everyone that may of helped somewhere along the lines.

And to the community itself, we would also like to thank you for your support, making mods such as this possible too. We're still at it after 20 years thanks to you!

And last but not least, a thanks for the Maxis individuals too, for the [paid] work that they did. ;-)

Contents:

• Commercial Offices Vol01
• Commercial Offices Vol02
• Small Shops vol01
• Small Shops vol02
• Small Shops vol03
• Small Shops vol04
• Small Shops vol05
• Small Shops vol06