- Steve Moraff
Steve Moraff is a video game designer best known for a series of DOS games launched in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Raised in
Ithaca, NY , Steve Moraff's father was anIBM employee who worked onCornell 's mainframe and his mother was a child development expert. Steve inherited his father's affinity forcomputers and began programming in a free computer lab provided by a local non-profit trying to start a science museum in Ithaca. Steve briefly attended theAlternative Community School , but later dropped out of school and after taking some courses at the localCommunity College obtained hisGED .In the late 1980s, Steve began programming games for
DOS -based computers culminating in the 1988 release ofMoraff's Revenge [ [http://www.rpgdot.com/index.php?hsaction=10053&ID=82 Moraff's Games] , "RPGDot", 2001-07-08, accessed 2008-3-24] , which, in addition to the then innovativeSVGA graphics, was one of the earlier games to be distributed using ashareware model. This launched Steve's career as a computer game developer and the company that would become MoraffWare and later Software Diversions, Inc. (SDI) which now specializes inMahjong solitaire -type games.In a small way, Steve was also an early innovator in using the
Internet for national politics. During the 1992 Presidential election season he included a copy of a speech given by candidateRoss Perot to the National Press Club - copies of which (including Mr. Moraff's introduction) can still be found on the Web to this day. [ [http://textfiles.tonytee.nl/politics/perot.rw5 A copy of Perot's Speech] as sent by Steve Moraff, accessed 2008-3-24]ee also
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Moraff's World External links
*Steve Moraff's [http://www.moraff.com personal website] .
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