The best method is probably still heating the drive until you reach the Curie temperature of the magnetic media inside (probably somewhere around 600C). Once you reach that temperature, the metal inside the media looses all its magnetic properties, and the data is lost.
You can already do that with mpg123. Just be sure to make the buffersize large enough, and then it will already start decoding the next track while it is decoding the previous track, with an (almost) unnoticable skip during playback. Works perfectly for Pink Floyd CDs at least.
I wasn't aware it had dropped off. But then a lot of information has dropped off the MSDN CD's in favour of a link to www.microsoft.com. I'm willing to bet the Word 97 format is still on there somewhere Nope, it isn't - it was pulled off MSDN. Apparently you can still request it from Microsoft by email (officeff@microsoft.com), and copies are still floating on the web. Also, according to Microsoft, there is no official documentation yet available on the Word 2000 format. The changes don't seem that interesting though - a lot of SPRMs were added and most of them do nothing more than confuse Word2000.
If you're going to have to reboot anyway to start the game, what's the point in having them on *any* particular OS anyway? Old games like Kings Quest I and Billiard worked this way.
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The best method is probably still heating the drive until you reach the Curie temperature of the magnetic media inside (probably somewhere around 600C). Once you reach that temperature, the metal inside the media looses all its magnetic properties, and the data is lost.
You can already do that with mpg123. Just be sure to make the buffersize large enough, and then it will already start decoding the next track while it is decoding the previous track, with an (almost) unnoticable skip during playback. Works perfectly for Pink Floyd CDs at least.
I wasn't aware it had dropped off. But then a lot of information has dropped off the MSDN CD's in favour of a link to www.microsoft.com. I'm willing to bet the Word 97 format is still on there somewhere Nope, it isn't - it was pulled off MSDN. Apparently you can still request it from Microsoft by email (officeff@microsoft.com), and copies are still floating on the web. Also, according to Microsoft, there is no official documentation yet available on the Word 2000 format. The changes don't seem that interesting though - a lot of SPRMs were added and most of them do nothing more than confuse Word2000.
If you're going to have to reboot anyway to start the game, what's the point in having them on *any* particular OS anyway? Old games like Kings Quest I and Billiard worked this way.