Space Attack
by Eileen Buckholtz, Ruth Glick
Space Attackbbc microJuvenile Fictionprogrammingacorn electron
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As a certified member of ACT (the Adventure Connection Team) your job, as always, is to defend the cause of good against evil.
About this book
Code Name: Orion Your name is Orion, and you've received an urgent message from a distant space station. Something is wrong. Dead wrong. The space station is under alien attach. As the computer whiz on the ACT (Adventure Connection Team) only YOU can save it. You must use your micro to: decode the alien messages break into the enemy's security system play the deadly game of laser attack SPACE ATTACK is more than a great adventure story. It's danger, action and suspense - plus computer programs for you to run. The programs will run in BASIC on the ZX Spectrum, QL, Commodore 64, Acorn Electron, Vic 20, BBC Micro, Apple 11+, 11e, 11c, Atari 400/800, IBM PC, PCjr, TI 99/4A, Tandy TRS-80 Models 1, 3, 4, Tandy Colour Computer and Dragon 32/64. Includes a reference manual with user tips and explanations of the programs!
Themes & subjects
Space Attackbbc microJuvenile Fictionprogrammingacorn electron1980s
Setting
BBC MicroAcorn Electron8 Bit Computing
About the authors
Eileen Buckholtz
1949
Eileen Garber was born in 1949. She obtained a Master Computer Scientist. During her distinguished career with the Department of Defense (1970-2001), she held a variety of technical leadership and management positions in emerging technology, knowledge management, Internet applications, IT workforce development, project management, policy and planning. Eileen first fiction book was a collaborative effort with three friends Ruth Glick, Louise Titchener, and Carolyn Males, the result was a romance novel Love is Elected, published in 1982 by Silhouette under the pseudonym Alyssa Howard. She also published two computer books for kids. She wrote over a dozen young adult's books with Ruth Glick…
Ruth Glick
27 April 1942
Ruth Day Burtnick was born on 27 April 1942 in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, the daughter of Lester Leon Burtnick, a psychiatrist, and Beverly Miller Burtnick, a middle-school science teacher. She was raised in Washington D.C., and obtained a B.A. in American Thought and Civilization from George Washington University and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Maryland. In 30 June 1963, she married Norman S. Glick, a mathematician for the Defense Department. They have two children: Elissa, a librarian, and Ethan, a Foreign Service Officer. Ruth and her friend Nancy Baggett began to write magazine articles. In this time, Ruth's daughter was a preschooler wanted a dollhouse. A famil…
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