• Registered: 2022-01-21
  • Posts: 2,287

Topic: Serif nostalgia

Do you remember when email offers for various non-Serif software used to arrive from Serif, often from a lady named Natasha.

  • Alfred
  • Alfred
  • Administrator
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2022-01-21
  • Posts: 2,225

Re: Serif nostalgia

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.”

“Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”
― Eckhart Tolle
  • Registered: 2025-10-03
  • Posts: 26

Re: Serif nostalgia

What the… they erased Natasha from our collective imagination before I could even meet Serif???

  • Ali
  • Ali
  • Member
  • Offline
  • From: Ipswich, UK
  • Registered: 2024-12-21
  • Posts: 234

Re: Serif nostalgia

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

Ali's Website

  • Alfred
  • Alfred
  • Administrator
  • Offline
  • Registered: 2022-01-21
  • Posts: 2,225

Re: Serif nostalgia

Ali wrote:

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.

“Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”
― Eckhart Tolle
  • Ali
  • Ali
  • Member
  • Offline
  • From: Ipswich, UK
  • Registered: 2024-12-21
  • Posts: 234

Re: Serif nostalgia

Ah! The rogues' gallery, yes.

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).

Ali's Website

  • Registered: 2025-10-05
  • Posts: 11

Re: Serif nostalgia

Im considering going back to Micrografx Windows Draw... ha
Older website screenshot in wayback machine:

https://i.postimg.cc/Dw46RcKh/Serif-wayback-machine.jpg

Post's attachments

Serif wayback machine.jpg 161.46 kb, file has never been downloaded. 

You don't have the permssions to download the attachments of this post.
  • From: NW Arkansas USA
  • Registered: 2024-02-03
  • Posts: 71

Re: Serif nostalgia

Alfred wrote:

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.

Just a little bit of paradise, in NW Arkansas