Moria

The first implementations of Moria are called VMS Moria, as they were written in VMS Pascal running on a VAX. They were developed by Robert Koeneke with some help of Jimmey Todd , both students at the University of Oklahoma, inspired by playing the original Rogue. Moria V1.0 was released around 1983, and in 1985, Koeneke released the source code code for Moria V4.0. After releasing V4.8, released 1986 or 1987, Koeneke and Todd stopped further work on Moria and gave permission to others to work on the game.

Jim Wilson and David Grabiner then went on to create a UNIX version of Moria, based on Koeneke's V4.8 sources and using his version numbering, so that the first UNIX Moria or Umoria version was V4.83, released in 1987. It mainly fixed bugs and it was much more portable than the original sources, so that versions of Umoria were eventually created for other platforms, including IBM PC, Atari ST, Amiga, Mac and the original VMS. Wilson and others continued to work on Moria until V5.5, the last official version released in 1992.