How to watch Live BBC channels on the web

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Are you looking for a MMORPG for the Acer Aspire One? - How to install DOFUS

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Traveling with the Acer Aspire One

I'll be traveling over the next few days with work and there is plenty of traveling on the train involved, so I thought I would use my Acer Aspire One to provide some entertainment whilst I'm away.

I've filled 2 usb flash disks with videos and with VLC player they play really well on the Acer, to keep the audio to myself I'll be using the brilliant Panasonic RP-HT225 headphones to listen to the videos.

So along with the free Wi-fi on most trains these days, I should have more then enough to kill some time.

How to watch ITV Player on the Acer Aspire One

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Xmame not up to date - some modern games don't work

Following on from this post - I just thought I would share with you that Xmame is based on a version of Mame which is a couple of years old.

This isn't a big problem as Xmame still runs 1000's of games but a few small number of recent games (like Street Fighter 3) won't run.

It's not an issue for me as I really the SF2 series but I'll look to see if there is a later version of MAME that will run well on the Acer Aspire One.

QuakeLive on the Acer Aspire One

As a long time Quake fan I was interested to see the launch of Quake Live, a multi player version of Quake that runs in a Web Browser.

I was curious to see how well QuakeLive ran on the Acer Aspire One, unfortunately when I visited there isn't a Linux version of the browser plug in available yet , however the website states that one will be available soon.

When a linux version becomes available I'll post the results of the test here.

How to improve performance of Mame on the Acer Aspire One

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Found a great post about increasing the viewing size of Webpages in FireFox

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How to install Mame on the Acer Aspire One

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How to play the Settlers Clone WideLands on the Acer Aspire One

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A great golf game on Linux for the Acer Aspire One

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How to mount a DOS drive in DOSBox on the Acer Aspire One

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How to map a network drive on the Acer Aspire One

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How to install Google Earth on the Acer Aspire One

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How to install Songbird on the Acer Aspire One

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How to view ebooks on the Acer Aspire One

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How to stream BBC Live Radio on the Acer Aspire One

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Videos of the classic PC game Wing Commander running on DosBox on the Acer Aspire One

The following video's show how well the classic PC game Wing Commander runs under DosBox on the Acer Aspire One.

Video One shows the game loading and the start of the games introduction.



Video Two shows the the fantastic mission briefing sequence.



Video three shows an in game battle, with enemy ships. At the end of the video I flip DosBox into window mode showing the linux desktop.

Classic PC gaming using DosBox on the Acer Aspire One

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How to access external drives on the Acer Aspire One

One of my original goals when getting the Acer Aspire One Netbook, was to be able to access my files on the SATA drive from my old broken laptop.

I've now achieved this, and this is how I did it:

1) I purchased a Plexus USB to IDE & SATA Adapter from ebuyer. (Click here for more info)


Inside the box there's a Power Adapter, data to USB convter , Power converter, and SATA data cable.


2) Into the SATA hard drive I plugged the Power Converter and SATA Data Cable. (Shown below)


3) I then connected the Power Adapter and Data to USB Converter. (Shown Below)


4) I plugged the usb cable into the Acer Aspire One.


5) The Acer Aspire One automatically detects both partitions on the drive and displays them as separate disks in the File Manager.
All the data is now accessible.