Acer One 11 Laptop BIOS update

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2025 at 15:45, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK... I went to that page and it looked scary. Then I decided to download the BIOS files and agreed to register and was greeted with a demand for $30/month, varying other rates, peaking at $1,800/year!

Oh no. Sorry. :-(

>> Looks like this was also sold as a Gateway NE132. That might help buts
>> probably not much.
>
> Ensures I'll never willingly buy one of those, either.

100% agreed!

> If all else fails, the system will be used as a Windows 10 based ZX Spectrum emulator. This is a bit of an ask, especially on a Linux mailing list, can anyone recommend a Windows 10 compatible ZX Spectrum emulator for this system?

There are loads.

Easy to use ones for non-techies...

Retro Virtual Machine:
https://www.retrovirtualmachine.org/download/

Zesarux:
https://github.com/chernandezba/zesarux

Others...
https://www.emu-land.net/en/computers/zx_spectrum/emuls/windows

> Someone I know from a Creative Writing group has a highly virus infected Windows 10 computer

Nuke, reload with Win10 IoT LTS from:

https://massgrave.dev/

> so Alan and I gave her a netbook with Debian LXDE and LibreOffice on it. Over the coming months I'll be teaching her how to use a computer - she's in her 80's. She won't be going online with it (it only has 1GiB RAM). These old systems can have a use, albeit in a modest way.

Nice!


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