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ATMcashpoint

TIL that version 1.0 of LOOM EGA features more stars in the area Outside the Pattern than later builds have.

Screenshots of LOOM EGA version 1.0, showing the area Outside the Pattern (room 46 in the game files).
Screenshots of LOOM EGA version 1.0, showing the area Outside the Pattern (room 46 in the game files).
Screenshots from a later version of LOOM EGA, showing the area Outside the Pattern. Some of the stars that appear on this background in version 1.0 have been removed.
Screenshots from a later version of LOOM EGA, showing the area Outside the Pattern. Some of the stars that appear on this background in version 1.0 have been removed.
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ATMcashpoint

Other differences in LOOM EGA version 1.0 include slightly different text under the Lucasfilm Games logo, and a stray image in the GUI to denote the exit from the mountain spiral staircase leading back into the dragon's cave which was deleted in later builds.

A screenshot of the Lucasfilm Games logo in LOOM EGA floppy version 1.0, which has text under it reading "TM and © 1990 LucasArts Entertainment".
A screenshot of the Lucasfilm Games logo in later versions of LOOM EGA floppy, which has text under it reading "TM and © 1990 LucasArts Entertainment Co."
A screenshot of the spiraling staircase at the exit from the mountain caves in LOOM EGA floppy version 1.0. The cursor is hovering over the exit leading back into the caves, with the result that a picture of the cave mouth appears in the GUI Object Window in the lower right of the screen.
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ATMcashpoint

That last detail is a relic of some early builds where all room exits were marked with pictures on the GUI. This was probably cut to avoid players trying to cast drafts on them, but evidently one exit indicator was left in by mistake in version 1.0.

A screenshot of a nearly complete build (perhaps a press copy) of LOOM EGA, from the May 1990 issue of German magazine PowerPlay. The image shows the crossroads just above the Weavers' village on Loom Island. The room exit leading to the Weavers' tents is marked by a picture of tents in the GUI Object Window at the bottom right of the screen, a feature that was deleted in the published game.
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