I saw that the games were hanging in windows 10 and that it involved winnm.dll. This is a common problem with some games. You need to replace the file. It is faulty.

Download the winmm.dll files in this thread.
Copy the files to the folder.
Rename winmm.dll to winnm.dll. (2 n's instead of 2 m's)

This got Hannibal to work. I got through the menus and to a battle and played a few moves without problems.

Caesar loads, but entering a battle causes an Interpreter error and I have no clue what is causing it nevertheless how to repair it.

Found Caesar's problem:

I found the version 1.0 files and compared them to the ones with the game. The file constant.ai is missing a bunch of words.

Open the file in a text editor like notepad and add:


' This next section of consts has to deal with the leaders and groups
' This section should NEVER be modified...
const
'Caesarian
J_CAESAR 0,
M_ANTONIUS 1,
GN_DOMITIUS 2,
P_SULLA 3,
A_LEPIDUS 4,
Q_PEDIUS 5,
C_REBILUS 6,
F_MAXIMUS 7,
KING_BOGUD 8,
TRIBUNE_III_CAESARIAN 9,
TRIBUNE_V 10,
TRIBUNE_VI 11,
TRIBUNE_VII 12,
TRIBUNE_VIII 13,
TRIBUNE_IX 14,
TRIBUNE_X 15,
TRIBUNE_XI 16,
TRIBUNE_XII 17,
TRIBUNE_XIII 18,
TRIBUNE_XIV 19,
TRIBUNE_XV 20,
TRIBUNE_XXVII 21,
TRIBUNE_ALAUDAE 22,
CAVALRY_PRAEFECT_I 23,
CAVALRY_PRAEFECT_II 24,
AUXILIA_CAESARIAN 25,

'Pompeian
POMPEY 26,
A_LABIENUS 27,
SCIPIO 28,
GNAEUS_POMPEIUS 29,
C_LENTULUS 30,
D_AHENOBARBUS 31,
L_AFRANIUS 32,
KING_JUBA 33,
A_VARUS 34,
SEXTUS_POMPEIUS 35,
M_PETREIUS 36,
TRIBUNE_I 37,
TRIBUNE_III_POMPEIAN 38,
GALICIAN_TRIBUNE 39,
TRIBUNE_XVI 40,
TRIBUNE_XVII 41,
SYRIAN_TRIBUNE_A 42,
SYRIAN_TRIBUNE_B 43,
MACEDONIAN_TRIBUNE_A 44,
MACEDONIAN_TRIBUNE_B 45,
CRETAN_TRIBUNE 46,
CILICIAN_TRIBUNE 47,
SPANISH_TRIBUNE_A 48,
SPANISH_TRIBUNE_B 49,
SPANISH_TRIBUNE_C 50,
TRIBUNE_XXX 51,
TRIBUNE_L 52,
C_PISO_CAVALRY 53,
PACIDEIUS_1_CAVALRY 54,
PACIDEIUS_2_CAVALRY 55,
C_M_SCIPIO 56,
M_PETREIUS_CAVALRY 57,
A_LABIENUS_CAVALRY 58,
AUXILIA_POMPEIAN 59,

'Roman
MARIUS 60,
SULLA 61,
CATULUS 62,
MURENA 63,
TRIBUNE_III 64,
AUXILIA 65,

'Pontine
ARCHELAEUS 66,
DIOGENES 67,
TAXILES 68,
ARISTION 69,
DROMICHAETES 70,
METROPHRANES 71,
BUPHUS 72,
ERUDITES 73,
ARCHON 74,

'Cimbric
BEORIX 75,
CHIEF_1 76,
CHIEF_2 77,
CHIEF_3 78,
CHIEF_4 79,
CHIEF_5 80,
CAVALRY_COMMANDER_1 81,
CAVALRY_COMMANDER_2 82,
CAVALRY_COMMANDER_3 83,

'Gallic Caesarian
LEGATES 84,
LABIENUS 85,
P_CONSIDIUS 86,

'Gallic Cimbric
HELVETII_CHIEF_1 87,
HELVETII_CHIEF_2 88,
HELVETII_CHIEF_3 89,
BOII_CHIEF_1 90,
TULINGI_CHIEF_1 91,
NERVII_CHIEF_1 92,
NERVII_CHIEF_2 93,
VEROMANDUI_CHIEF_1 94,
VEROMANDUI_CHIEF_2 95,
ATREBATES_CHIEF_1 96,
ATREBATES_CHIEF_2 97;


The game then becomes playable. I have not tested it to completion.

Still not sure what is up with the opening screen buttons. I need to figure out what file it is.

Hello,

I tried your fix for Caesar by downloading the standalone version, grabbing the winmm,dll files and following your directions.

I appended the text you provided to the constant.ai file (at the bottom of the existing text.)

The game starts but crashes within a minute or two (just closes out, no error).

If you do poke around and figure out how to get Caesar going, or see a flaw in what I did, I would be grateful. These were my favorite games for many years.

Thanks!

I only have it at playable as I haven't checked everything or even played through a whole battle. I only clicked start battle and with Dyrrhachium selected press OK. OK'ed through some menus, moved some guys and watched the enemy move. Called that playable.

I would need to replicate what you did with the program to check. The game seems to still be pretty broken. Did you click anything and in what order? The key is to cause the crash the same way.

To that end, leaving the game open and doing nothing does seem to cause it to close at some point. I have no idea why. It doesn't seem to do it while I am pressing buttons and such.