The Last Ninja - Unreleased TRS-80 CoCo 3 game

This game was announced in the 1989 Radio Shack catalog, but never completed. Here's a short clip of what we missed out on. This video was recorded on Saturday March 31st, 2007 at the 16th Annual "Last" Chicago CoCoFest in Elgin, IL. A few other new items for the CoCo were released, including a Donkey Kong port where the Z-80 code was translated to 6809, and emulation code was written for the arcade hardware, making it the closest thing to a MAME on an 8-bit TRS-80. (There's a video here somewhere of that, too, not posted by me.)

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• tandy
• trs-80
• color
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• coco
• last
• ninja
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• game

[nitturo]

i'm looking for CoCo emulators for Linux, except Mess - which is the best one?

[allenhuffman]

@nitturo Google "maltedmedia cocolist" and drop a note there. Someone should be able to point you in the right direction, but MESS is the only one I know of (but I have seen VCC run under Wine on Linux).

[MadCommodore]

Be nice if we could have a cap of the actual screen not a phone cam pointed at a monitor.

The game code for Last Ninja isn't all that difficult, it runs on a standard C64 and there are only one or two sprites on the screen and zero scrolling so I'm sure it could be speeded up.

[allenhuffman]

I would expect the C64 version would be far superior. The CoCo has no sprites, and no sound hardware (just a DAC) -- just a chunk of video memory.

If anyone ever gets ahold of the game, I'm sure a direct record of it from an emulator could be done, but there's only one known copy of the game that anyone has ever seen (no one even thought it existed until this last year).

[br000ly]

kinda super slow but i like the graphs

[allenhuffman]

1.83mhz, no hardware graphics (sprites, etc.) on a high level operating system. Amazing it could do it at all.

[nebby6]

@allenhuffman Hmmm.... Tough call on that one, since the CoCo III is faster and has more colors than a C64. Yes, no sprites. But, the CPU makes up for quite a bit of it. Check out the YouTube of Donkey Kong for the CoCo 3. As for the DAC, it ain't no SID, but it can do some neat stuff it used properly.

[mast3rbug]

What I don't understand, I have this game since long time... But it was a side scroll game. It was fun. It's version 2?

[senorverde09]

I think it had/has potential.



[gjc82071]

Can anybody offer ANY help about installing a TRS80 emulator on Windows Vista, or 200, Me, 98? I am pretty adept at emulation. I have installed, WinVICE, Apple2, ALL, Atari,Nintendo, Sega emulators, Intellivision, Odyssey, + a bunch of obscure, 8-bit PCs, & more. For the life of me I can't get ANY TRS80 emulator to work, and as it is practically the last & basically the only system on my list I can't get to work, it's driving me crazy almsot to the point of insanity. HELP! Anybody? Puleeze!