Does anyone remember the works of Steve Moraff? He was basically one of the biggest and best shareware producers (that was not Apogee or ID)

For those who don't know, he was one of the first to work with SVGA graphics but rather than trying to describe all the games he did, instead I've posted a link to the internet archive.

...That doesn't cover all of them either. But there's a problem.

He no longer sells his old games, or even offers them as freeware/shareware downloads. Of all the pioneers, he seems to be not so much about his legacy.

I haven't heard of him at all, but maybe some of his games will be familiar to me.

The link you posted doesn't work though btw. <--- link is fixed.

I remember him, played a lot of his dungeon crawler games back in the day and had a lot of fun. Wasn't old enough at the time to convince the parents to get a full version of his games so I only played the shareware versions.

I think that's because the punctuation got double-coded into the URL. %3a is a colon :. And %22 is a double quote ". But %25 is a percent sign %, so %3a became %253a, and so forth. So the text in the search box on the page at the link should be:
creator:"MoraffWare"

I'll try to post the link to list of games created by Steve Moraff and see if my attempt works.

I remember the Moraff games by name, but don't recall the actual games. They had a klunky primitive sort of artwork feel to them IIRC, reminiscent of Borland BGI graphics (and possibly even using BGI perhaps). Oddly, I don't think I've seen nor heard of the name since the late 1990s.

Your URL to wayback is dead BTW.

It works.
Some other links:
https://www.mobygames.com/search/quick?q=Moraff
http://www.myabandonware.com/search/q/moraff/

I fixed it. Are you talking about the DOS games, or the Windows games, when you speak of their visual look?

Your link works for me now, thanks for fixing it.

Sadly these aren't familiar games to me, but hey that's a good thing right :)


edit: me grammar bad

The ones I'm thinking of were MSDOS era IIRC, downloaded off BBS.

I'm more familiar with the Windows ones.

He renamed his company to Software Diversions, and only sells his newest version of Mahjongg. He used to be selling his world of games for a long time, and had the dos games as a CD/Download for a while, but they disappeared when Mahjongg 14 was released.

And apparently he lives in China now.

It depends on your tastes.

Chinese people really love Shisen-Sho(四川省/连连看), which is a varient of Mahjong Solitaire.

Which is a shame, as I prefer quirky little games, and his games were full of mildly quirky charm.