[HeckFeck]

> A while later the same mag gave away a copy of Delphi.

Funny you mention that, was it PC Pro? I bought the same magazine a long time ago, I remember the CD. I really wanted to make windows appear and things happen on screen. But I unfortunately couldn't figure out the programming. It only came to me much later and long after Delphi (and winforms) had fallen.

[s_severus]

Either PC Pro or PC Plus! Hard to remember exactly all these year later. I wrote more about how it fit into my journey as a dev in this essay: https://www.michaelbromley.co.uk/blog/confessions-of-an-inte...

[CRConrad]

PC Plus, I'd guess. They had a long-standing series of columns by Huw Collingbourne on developing with it.

Another quirky memory of 1990s Brithish PC magazines: PC Shopper had a column by then-pharmacist-turned-computer-guy, now not wholly-unknown SF author Charlie Stross.

[HeckFeck]

Just finished giving it a read, thanks for sharing. Maybe some day I'll have done enough interesting things with programming to write a similar tale.