Steve JacksonInterview
Game designer
Adapted from Steve Jackson's interview on Uses This, published 2 August 2009. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Right now, I have a 15-inch 2.2 GHz MacBook Pro with 2 gigs of memory and 110 gigs on the hard drive, of which 2.82 are free at the moment.
I carry the MacBook between home and office; in each location I make a wireless connection to the net, but plug in a second monitor.
I also have an HP C4280 but the damned thing only worked properly for a little while before Mac broke it with an OS change.
I carry an old 8GB iPhone.
Communication
Productivity
Browser
Notes
XyWrite remains the only word processor I have ever loved, and I mourn its tragic and protracted death.
Coding & Development
For pure text editing (HTML files, a bit of coding for fun) I use BBEdit.
When working on a card game, I keep track of the cards using Filemaker Pro, one record per card, one DB per game.