Noted.

how much priority is placed on getting compatability with the macintosh version of loom, which I do legitimatly own.

if you had read the readme you would know that pressing F5 will open a save/load dialog.

Is it possible without very specific hardware configurations to get the wonderfull midi music from the floppy disk version of Loom? I played it back in the day on my old mac SE in black and white. Unfourtunatelly I couldn't see the copy protection screen when I started it in color on later systems, ...