Career

The games were sold under the name Moraffware and usually included his name in the title: Moraff"s Revenge, Moraff"s World, Moraff"s Stones. Raised in Ithaca, New York, Steve Moraff"s father was an International Business Machines Corporation employee who worked on Cornell"s mainframe and his mother was a child development expert. Moraff inherited his father"s affinity for computers and 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 General Educational Development. In the late 1980s, Moraff began programming games for MSDOS-based computers, culminating in the 1988 release of Moraff"s Revenge, which, in addition to the SVGA graphics, was one of the earlier games to be distributed using a shareware model.

This launched his career as a computer game developer and the company that would become MoraffWare and later Software Diversions, Incorporated. (SDI), based in Florida, which now specializes in Mahjong solitaire-type games.