Loom IBM PC 1990
LucasFilm Games released Loom for IBM PC MS-DOS in May of 1990. Loom was designed and programmed by Brian Moriarty, illustrated by Mark Ferrari and animated by Gary Winnick and Steve Purcell. For Loom George Sanger composed excerpts from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake of 1875.
Loom is notable for its magical tunes called Drafts ("spells") that are played note-by-note on a magical staff called a Distaff. Playing tunes on the Distaff allows the player to interact with objects and actors that appear in the scenes. In addition, by way of exploration and environment-interaction players progressively learn more notes that allow them to play more Drafts ("cast more spells"). There are no traditional commands and no inventory, text-inputting or mapping.
Loom was distributed on 6x 5.25" 360K DS DD floppy disks or 3x 3.5" 720K DS DD diskettes. Loom extracts and installs via the Loom Hard Disk Install Utility. The install size of the original EGA version (v.1.0) is 2.1 megs (80 files).
Loom displays in 16-color EGA 320x200 (320x128 active drawspace).
Loom audio supports AdLib, Sound Blaster and Gameblaster. Roland MT-32 Sound Module or LAPC-1 sound card support was added via upgrade disk.
- Loom Manual: 8 pages
- Loom Hint Book: 53 pages
- Loom Book of Patterns: 16 pages
Loom copy protection Book of Patterns: Secret Weave, Guild & Thread.
Loom DOSBox Run-time error - integer divide by 0: Set cycles to 2000.
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