The game crashes during a cutscene at the Shepherds's guild ( i include the savegame) using scummvm-0.10.0 on Slackware, and using scummvm-0.8.2 on Windows XP. the last version without this bug is 0.7.1 .
(25:69:0x4AC): convertMessageToString(): string escape sequence 20 unknown.
The savegame
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Sounds like a bug specific to the Italian Loom version (which I don't have). Is this a regular official release by LucasArts, or a fan translated version?
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I can confirm that this is a know bug of the IAGTG (iagtg.net) italian patch for LOOM floppy, you can close this bug report.
@Mastermind: if you wish you can download the CD patch from the same site, which is without this bug.