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The Homebrew Computer Club was an early computer hobbyist club in Palo Alto, California. At the first meeting in March 1975, Steve Dompier gave an account of his visit to the MITS factory in Albuquerque, where he had attempted to pick up his order for one of everything. [7]
Invitation to first Homebrew Computer Club meeting, sent by Fred Moore to Steve Dompier Gordon French, Lee Felsenstein, and Harry Garland would frequent the Oasis following the formal meetings of the club. [2] The former site of the Oasis, c. 2024, which became home to Pear VC in 2019
Trek-80 is a text-based video game written by Steve Dompier in 1976 and sold by Processor Technology for their Sol-20 computer and suitable S-100 bus machines. Trek-80 combines features of the seminal Star Trek game by Mike Mayfield with the unrelated Trek73.
Target, or TARG, was an action video game written by Steve Dompier for the VDM-1 video card for S-100 bus microcomputers. It is among the earliest computer video games, [1] released some time in 1976 or 1977. [a] The game used the VDM-1's graphics characters in a game that Dompier described as a "shoot the airplanes sort of game".
They used a game by Steve Dompier called "Target" to show off the system's capabilities. [33] The show's host, Tom Snyder, ended up playing the game right through the commercial breaks, and they had to force him to give up the machine in order to finish the show. [34]
It is an adaptation of the game TARGET, [3] developed for the Sol-20 by Steve Dompier. [4] Gameplay. The display is made of ASCII characters.
Byte also credits Steve Dompier with authoring the animation tool "Dazzlemation" and the first animation made with Dazzlemation called "Magenta Martini". George Tate (who later co-founded Ashton-Tate) is credited with a Tic-Tac-Toe game for the Dazzler, and Li-Chen Wang is credited as the author of "Kaleidoscope". [7]
In 1975, Steve Dompier, member of Homebrew Computer Club, programmed an Altair 8800 computer to play Daisy as AM radio interference. [ 8 ] In 1985, Christopher C. Capon created a Commodore 64 program named "Sing Song Serenade", which caused the Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive to emit the tune of "Daisy Bell" directly from its hardware by ...