This package is a *patch* for the floppy version of Loom to upgrade it to the CD version.  In addition to getting VGA graphics, you have the option of burning it to a CD and getting full voices.

To patch your copy of Loom, copy the files from the floppy version of Loom to the IN directory.  Then run ASSEMBLE.  This will automatically extract the CD version, and unpack the audio if you have also downloaded the voice addon.

If you have not downloaded the voice addon, your copy of Loom is ready to go; just copy all the files from the DATA subdirectory to somewhere else, and play.  You will need to have a data CD in your drive when you play Loom; the game will also be silent.

If you have downloaded the voice addon, ASSEMBLE should automatically unpack the audio for you.  Once ASSEMBLE has completed, put a blank CD-R or CD-RW in your CD burner, run BURN and follow the directions to have the CD burnt for you.  (Note that unpacking the audio requires around 700 MB of free hard disk space!  Once BURN is done, everything you need is on the CD, so you can delete all these files and reclaim quite a bit of space.)  Although a small CD burning program is included, you will need to have some other CD burning program installed as well for this to work.  It shouldn't matter which CD burning program you have, just as long as one is installed.

If BURN doesn't work for you, or you'd rather use your own CD burning program, you will need to lay out the disk like so:

Track 1: Mode 1 ISO, OUT\TRACK01.ISO
Track 2: 4 minutes, 32 seconds, 0 frames silence
         .WAV audio, OUT\TRACK02.WAV

The CD should be burnt in Disk-At-Once mode with no gaps between the tracks.  Note that many CD burning programs cannot automatically pad tracks with silence at the beginning, and others don't handle gapless burning consistently, so it is preferable to use BURN.  (If you don't pad Track 2 with silence, the voices won't match what's going on in the game.)

Since Loom causes many CD-ROM drives to repeatedly spin up and down, you may have gaps in the voices, or even entire chunks cut off.  This problem is typically worse under Windows NT, 2000, and XP.  The freeware program Nero DriveSpeed (http://www.cdspeed2000.com/) often helps with this; set your drive to operate at 1X or 2X and it will probably stop spinning up and down.

If you don't have a copy of the floppy version of Loom, contact your local LucasArts distributor and ask them to order you a copy of the Classic Adventures Pack, which includes it.  (Even though it ships on a CD, this is *not* the same as the CD version of Loom!  It is the regular floppy version -- which has inferior graphics and no voices -- put on a CD.)  Don't bother contacting HOTU if you're not willing to buy it, because there is a strictly-enforced no-warez policy.