We were, but I jumped to the conclusion that Someone wasn’t, based on the assumption that a boxed version of Loom recent enough to contain a CD must surely be the more modern VGA version. Though I guess someone, if not Someone, will tell me that there exist indeed boxed copies with the EGA version on a CD.
Much more actually. Considering the average size of EGA games is less then 1 MB, there is a good chance that all 1655 DOS EGA games listed on MobyGames actually fit on one CD. One version of each game that is.
When it’s not English or Japanese, that would be probably an EGA version. Not sure if such a boxed version exists, but a CD version certainly does, which is this magazine CD.
Pro Gamer Tip for Indy3:
Listen to the movie’s soundtrack while playing the game for the best sound experience. 
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I’ll just take the OST on CD
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Me too, but not everyone has it lying around at home, I assume.
Yes, no, but, yes, no, I know that he knew the game, but maybe not others…
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You also need the manuals and a couple of modern game demos of probably some 50-200 MB, so I’d peg it at rather significantly less than a 100. The main point is that you can stuff it in the few spare MB you have left (or less for a single-floppy game) and stick a “free full game!” on the cover to boot. 
I just wanted to add that the “EGA version of the VGA version” is not the same as the actual EGA version, which was sold separately.
When running the VGA version with the “EGA flag” when calling the game executable, you didn’t get the real EGA graphics, but just a poor emulation of the VGA graphics with only 16 colors, and it looked really bad. The only interesting thing about it is that it used a higher resolution mode (I think it was 640x200 instead of 320x200), so it had two “tall” pixels for each actual game pixel, so it could “dither” the 256 colors into just 16, but still the results weren’t that good.
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Nitpicking: the roman numeral in the title should be XLVIII.
EDIT: oh, it’s actually said on that page 
That reminds me I once had a PE teacher who didn’t on9w how to tally. He’d go IIIIII instead of 4 + diagonal so you could actually see the number at a glance.
The problem with the 256-color version of Loom is that is not exactly the same game. It has cut or abridged scenes, changed dialogue, etc. So in this case it’s not just aesthetics the only deciding factor on which version to play. You should probably play both to see the differences.
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