Overclocking Fred

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Stu
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Overclocking Fred

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I stumbled across this Russian blog post recently about patching Fred to run a little quicker:

https://habr.com/ru/articles/721386/

Source plus patched SNA and TAP files can be downloaded at https://github.com/kmatveev/zx-fred-reveng
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Morkin
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Re: Overclocking Fred

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This is pretty cool. 8-)

One of those games where speeding it up makes it a lot more playable without making it unnecessarily harder. I haven't read the commentary but the keyboard controls feel a lot more responsive.

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Just tried this and it plays great on Unreal Speccy Portable :D
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