Now I had posted this in a another post but figured those looking for a solution to this particular problem wouldn't know a possible solution was there.

Anyway as you may know if you create a new character in the Worlds of Ultima games is either to completely uninstall the game and remove the saves or try and run the installer and it erase your character which sadly given that it's a dos program may or may not work outside of a dosbox enviorment.

First you need to make a copy the game's shortcut on your desktop and the game's dosbox .conf file which is dosboxMARTIAN.conf and dosboxSAVAGE.conf

Once you have done that go into the game's directory(default C:\gog.com\Martian Dreams or C:\GOG.com\The Savage Empire)

now right click and change the conf name to whatever and open your new copy of the conf file and scroll down to the following section:


[autoexec]
@echo off
mount C .
c:
cd SAVAGE
cls
SAVAGE.EXE
exit

Change the following line

from SAVAGE.EXE

to

Install.EXE

now save the copy make sure you save it with the .conf extention if you didn't just copy the orignal conf file and rename said copy.

Now right click on your copy shortcut and choose properties there you should see a box marked Target with a line in the box that should look something like this:

"C:\Program Files\GOG.com\The Savage Empire\DOSBOX\DOSBox.exe" -conf dosboxSAVAGE.conf -noconsole -c "exit"

Change the line dosboxSAVAGE.conf to the name of your install dosbox config i.e. "C:\Program Files\GOG.com\The Savage Empire\DOSBOX\DOSBox.exe" -conf dosboxSavageinstall.conf -noconsole -c "exit" keep the quotes.

And if you done it right you should be able to use this shortcut to run the installer under dosbox and remove your character without having to unistall the game everytime.

Thanks!

Please sticky this GOG!

You quite welcome. Glad someone found it useful.

Great post, i might try that, but honestly, i got lost in the the technicalities, it seems like i would rather just unistall. for me thats easier. good post though some people would rather do it your way.