Steve Moraff

Steven Richard Moraff (born 1963) is a video game designer and programmer best known for a series of MS-DOS shareware games launched in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The games were sold under the name Moraffware (sometimes written as MoraffWare) and usually included his surname in the title, such as Moraff's Revenge, Moraff's World, and Moraff's Stones.[1]

Early life

Raised in Ithaca, New York, Steve Moraff's father was an IBM employee who worked on Cornell's mainframe and his mother was a child development expert.[citation needed] Moraff began programming in a free computer lab provided by a local non-profit, trying to start a science museum in Ithaca. He briefly attended the Alternative Community School but later dropped out of school and, after taking some courses at the local community college, he obtained his GED.[citation needed]

Game development

In the late 1980s, Moraff began programming games for MS-DOS, culminating in the 1988 release of Moraff's Revenge,[2] a dungeon crawler distributed using a shareware model.[3] This launched the company that became Moraffware and later Software Diversions, Inc. (SDI), based in Florida, which specializes in mahjong solitaire-type games.[4] Moraff's Revenge was followed by Moraff's World and Moraff’s Dungeons of the Unforgiven in 1991 and 1993 respectively.[3]

Moraff's games were notable for pushing the limits of the hardware. Moraffware published some of the first games that supported 24-bit color SVGA output, displaying 16.7 million colors and supporting resolutions up to 1024x768.[5][6]

Works

Year Game Notes
1988 Moraff's Revenge [3]
1989 Moraff's Pinball [3]
1991 Superblast [3]
1991 Moraff's World [3]
1991 Moraff's Flygame [3]
1991 Moraff's Excapade [3]
1991 Moraff's Entrap [3]
1991 Mather [3]
1992 Moraff's Stones [3]
1992 Moraff's Morejongg [3]
1992 Moraff's Monster Memory [3]
1992 Moraff's Monster Bridge [3]
1993 Moraff’s Dungeons of the Unforgiven [3]

References

  1. ^ "Abandonware games published by Moraffware".
  2. ^ Moraff's Games, RPGDot, 2001-07-08. Archived from the original on February 23, 2002. Accessed 2008-3-24.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Pepe, Felipe, ed. (2021). The CRPG Book: a Guide to Computer Role-Playing Games - Expanded Edition (PDF). Birmingham: Bitmap Books. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-8384585-7-7.
  4. ^ "Moraff's MahJongg".
  5. ^ "Moraff's World" (PDF). Red Herring (15): 30–31. February 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-09-17.
  6. ^ "VGA Games" (PDF). The Computer Paper. 6 (5) (Ontario ed.): 25. May 1993.


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