diff --git a/packages/frobtads/build.sh b/packages/frobtads/build.sh
index a9f76e1ad..6f2aae890 100644
--- a/packages/frobtads/build.sh
+++ b/packages/frobtads/build.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 TERMUX_PKG_HOMEPAGE=http://www.tads.org/frobtads.htm
 TERMUX_PKG_DESCRIPTION="TADS is a free authoring system for writing your own Interactive Fiction"
-TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.2.3
-TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=2
-TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://www.tads.org/frobtads/frobtads-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz
-TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=88c6a987813d4be1420a1c697e99ecef4fa9dd9bc922be4acf5a3054967ee788
+TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=1.2.4
+TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=705be5849293844f499a85280e793941b0eacb362b90d49d85ae8308e4c5b63c
+TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://github.com/realnc/frobtads/releases/download/$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION/frobtads-$TERMUX_PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="share/frobtads/tads3/doc share/frobtads/tads3/lib/webuires"
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="ncurses, libcurl"
diff --git a/packages/frobtads/tads3-vmtz.cpp.patch b/packages/frobtads/tads3-vmtz.cpp.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 5198e70e6..000000000
--- a/packages/frobtads/tads3-vmtz.cpp.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/games/frobtads/files/patch-tads3_vmtz.cpp?revision=432973&view=markup
-
-diff -u -r ../frobtads-1.2.3/tads3/vmtz.cpp ./tads3/vmtz.cpp
---- ../frobtads-1.2.3/tads3/vmtz.cpp	2013-05-17 21:46:51.000000000 +0200
-+++ ./tads3/vmtz.cpp	2017-06-12 00:31:09.635744304 +0200
-@@ -1984,7 +1984,7 @@
-              *   the transition in terms of the local time that was in effect
-              *   up until that moment
-              */
--            result->set(tcur > 0 ? tcur - 1 : tcur);
-+            result->set(cur > 0 ? tcur - 1 : tcur);
-             return;
-         }
-     }