Once seen, never forgotten! A senior member of Serif staff subsequently confessed that ‘Natasha Allachina’ was entirely fictional.

“Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.”

Or, Nastalgia, it would appear.

I particularly remember getting the envelope containing details for an upgrade (probably to PP2.0) with its teaser screenshots and looking at it every day until my upgrade arrived (probably on a couple of floppy disks). Back then, the anticipation was part of the joy of upgrading. Nowadays, having to wait seems to have the opposite effect on people, as demonstrated during the final days of the Affinity Forums).

I can remember getting them through the post before that ...

Same here! My ‘Serif Rogues Gallery’ (which I really ought to look into resurrecting) includes a picture of her that someone scanned from a flyer in one of those mailings. I seem to remember that there was even a crease which was only partially removed from the scanned copy.

“Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.”