Commodore raised the bar so many times in the golden age of home computing- Their machines were exeptionaly well made and always had the best games. rip
Its hard to believe that the Amiga is no longer. I will have Workbench 3.1 disks. Probably don't work anymore, but, I just can't throw them away. This brings a tear to my eye. The Amiga was the best computer of that time, no doubt about it in my opinion. Long live my memory of a great computer.
Competitor many times went with prices bellow normal earnings and bancrupted in short time taking with them 3 or mor companies. This is unstable market and I amnot economist and see this. This must be regulated from State level, but capitalism allows all sleazy tricks. This vacuum is oportunity for new volfs but mostly that are the rich ones with proper info and connections and money. The rest can sell fake dreams, pick up lines, fake job opportunities, penis enlargment pills, date services, etc
... for homeusers, because they get clients by that for compainies which pay A LOT. And when someone is used to Windows OS and other software, he will have a hard time to go to Linux. I am a Windows "addict" and prefer Windows over Linux because I can do something with it. MS studied the market well and users psychics. Commodore was naive in this sense, they probably thought the product speaks for itself. But competition is shit and many times sleazy, hungry and careless...
Bill Gates was never a genius programer we all know that. He just know how to sell and he had connections with it. He made a good business and easy money. Abaut Windows it is normaly that you are being brainwashed at companies like MS. In crisis times like this you are ready to sell your soul to make a living. And all that commercials abaut western managers in nice suits and practically no education only intuition and ego matters we have it that way. MS doesn't really bother for antipiracy at...
The Commodore factory was pretty much like Google today, a playground for creative people with lots of innovative ideas and hard working spirit. The Amiga was primary a graphical game computer while PC where boring boxes running DOS. However, what it lacked was an serious Office suit. Wonder what PC would have been without Microsoft?
@Freeleacher Original Disks came with protection which xcopy could not copy. Well it could copy but in case of Walker game it would only play through the 1st level.
If this company would have had a proper management, it would be Amiga computers, and not Windows PCs, which would rule the market today. I have no doubt. Commodore developed a 32 bit system already in the mid 1980s, ten years before Microsoft presented 32 bit as an "innovation". And Amiga computers really do have a soul. If you switch them on, you become one with it. This is something which never happens with modern PCs and games.
I miss Commodore. This video is like an untrue nightmare :(
@AirSimming No, Commodore never got a grip on the office market like PC and Microsoft. It did well in graphical industries and computer games but it was never taken serious by other companies. The Amiga was a "toy computer" rather than a serious workstation. It wasn't just Commodore that killed it, it was the software market that actually made the PC more popular.
@fredrik999z Commodore had a bad management which canceled almost all the innovations. The biggest error was to sell the Amiga 600, which was no innovation at all. It was a disaster. This actually marked the end or Commodore.
Beside Microsoft, Apple also got a grip on the office market. Microsoft just was on the right place at the right time, which made developers shift to Windows. With Commodore being innovative, the market for sure would look different today...
@AirSimming Yes, they did a lot of mistakes but it wasn't the only reason for their downfall. In the 90's the computer industry changed a lot and so did computer games. The Amiga platform was not prepared for things like 3D-games, internet and expandable computers. There where no chance they could keep up with the fast development of sound, graphics and network hardware of the PC platform. Amiga 1200 was not good enough to compete against PC and expanding was expensive and complicated.
@fredrik999z Yes, the Amiga 1200 could not compete. Already the Amiga 600 was behind of the time due to bad management . But the Amiga 1200 already could be used for 3D gaming. Doom run on it fine actually, like on the 80383 PC. But at that time Commodore already was down and A1200 was sold by Escom. No developments anymore. They canceled everything in the early 90's. They missed the time and software developers changed to the PC platform.
@AirSimming When A1200 was introduced in late 1992 there where 80486DX2 CPU's, HiRes VGA graphics and 16-bit sound available for PC. A year later Intel introduced the Pentium CPU. A lot faster than the 680X0 series. Escom took over production in 1995 and canceled it in summer 1996. There was never an accelerated 3D-card available for the Amiga so software rendition was the only option. They had no chance to compete.
@fredrik999z Microsoft has a dominating position. It could be easy to develope games and all other software for Linux and Mac OS as well. But M$ just sells better, because almost any computer comes with M$ because it just is the best cash cow. It's all about money. In fact, compared to Mac OS and Linux, Windows is not any better. It's actually worse but most easy to use for any average joe. It's something for the masses, not for the classes ;)
@AirSimming Well, the reason why Windows is pre-installed is because 99% of the market actually wants it. Why would anyone write a game or program for something that just 1% is using? Windows is better than Linux in every aspect otherwise they would never be able to sell it.
@fredrik999z Regarding Windows: it's not that 99% wants it, but 99% just gets it because almost any new PC is sold with Windows. The average Joe doesn't know that there is something like Linux. He has the choice bewteen Apple and PC. But Apple is "too expensive" for him, and a Linux PC does not exist, so the Windows PC is the only choice. PC developers make a lot of money by selling their hardware with Windows, not because people want it but because MS pays best to hold the monopoly.
I don't see where you get your 'facts' from. The market opt for Windows because while may not be the most efficient OS, it is very well supported, it is a sure fire operating system and can do anything as expected a computer can do because it is the 'standard'.
Linux is very efficient however it's not as well supported as Windows and you don't have that peace of mind knowing that you are bound to have something work.
@fredrik999z Bill Gates is not a genius software developer, just like Steve Balmer is not. Windows is poor compared to what Linux Ubuntu for example offers, and all this for free. Bill Gates and Balmer just are marketing experts. They were on the right places at the right time. And they don't even make all the money just by selling Windows. It's the support for companies.
@fredrik999z And those companies are mostly held in stupidity, unless they have admins who know it better and suggest Linux over Windows. I know it because a friend of mine works in that business, for Microsoft. But you can not talk to him, since during his qualification, which he got from Microsoft of course, he really became brainwashed. He even was told complete nonsense regarding Linux. And he spreads the propaganda whenever he talks about his job at Microsoft. We always collide...
@AirSimming Well, I think Commodore/Amiga plays a very important role in computer history and what we have today in both software and hardware. They introduced several new technologies with the Amiga 1000/500 platform that took years for others to catch up. Also, they showed the world that computers can be anything else than boring boxes and set path for thousands of creative game developers world wide.
The Amiga was the greatest. I had the opportunity many years ago to speak with Steve Jobs about the Amiga - even he was enamored with it. It was a truly special machine with great people such as Jay Miner. It was a different bunch of folks back then - people with heart and soul and a user community like none other. Apple had a bit of that for a while, but now it's just another computer company. I really miss the Amiga and most of all the wonderful people that went along with it.
@FreeWinSlave Bad management actually kill it. Amiga evolute quite little since the early 90's while the PC was getting quite stronger year after year. Soon you could notice the difference between a PC Graphics vs Amiga's not-any-more-impressive-graphics. Piracy also didn't helped of course which caused to software companies to either bankrupted / switched to other platforms so they could remain alive.
@Freeleacher "Its only a machine that had no copy protection on its software, xcopy killed the amiga"
First of all, there were plenty of copy protection schemes.
Second of all, every copy protection scheme for Amiga, Mac, Windows, and Atari were cracked. Amiga was killed by mismanagement. Commodore was making plenty of money through the C-64 and they ignored the Amiga as a result.
Normalka wszystkie najlepsze firmy tak konczą Tonsil w polsce podobnie upadł a teraz zburzyli budynek ! szkoda ze Commodore tak skonczylo do dzisiaj mam a4000 i 1200 nie sprzedam ich nigdy
i used to love my amiga. just headaches for years trying to adjust to the loss of the company .. video toast was fun to use. the games rocked. the monitor was so hi quality for the time.. what the hell happened?? what a shame
The Amiga wasn't just about games, it was the best platform all round including business applications which had better design and better graphics than anything the PC could hope to produce. I have yet to see a text editor on the PC that has silk-smooth scrolling like the one I had on the Amiga (Cygnus Ed).
The Amiga attracted better developers who in turn made better programs.
But the paranoid business world deciders, mostly a bunch of clueless sheep, hated taking any risk and chose the PC.
Jay worked at Commodore-Amiga for several years, in Los Gatos, California. They made good progress at the beginning, but as Commodore management changed, they became marginalised and the original Amiga staff was fired or left out on a one-by-one basis, until the entire Los Gatos office was closed. Miner later worked as a consultant for Commodore until it went bankrupt. En français: " Bien mal acquis ne profite jamais"
There are millions of people like myself that have very great memories of there youth playing the Amiga. For me it was a time that gave me much joy and looking at todays games I really can't say that. Yes I am older and more wiser but Amiga games had soul which is very much missing from todays gorgeous graphical features. Bring back Bulldog and games like Powermonger and Populous II.
Very sad indeed... and amazing that, almost TWENTY years later, people are still excited about the Amiga. Ah well. There's no way an Amiga could ever compare with the raw computing performance and convenience that I have under my fingertips now, but it sure was fun, and the best you could get at around 1990.
the best days of my life were spent with my AMIGA 500 + and 600, which were light years more advanced than the stupid motherfuckers IBM PC's that do not serve for nothing!
Hallelujah!!! Sad to see it. They literally killed it with the indecision of including 16-bit sound with A1200. That would have made it and not break it direct competitor with emerging Apple and SoundBlaster sound cards.. Stupid overly thrifty untechnically uneducated CEO's from the '60s! From Mr. A500/A1200.
@warwick2155 Nah, come on! Its "just" management-failure. Thats all. Same with atari and so many others. New world, new technology, new errors to make. Same rules ever. Survival of the fittest... (and: wow, did that video touch me... Greetings to all you amiga guys out there!)
I was almost crying.. I have so many memories with my Amiga 500.. You can't even compare the fun that we got during 90s with the current generation. Since you are making the games more realistic, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is gonna be more fun. Amiga generations secret was its simplicity. I felt old.. I missed old days..
@drcolakoglu1907 Completely agree with you. All over the world there's a crowd of people thinking that way (mostly mature people). Today's youth is corrupted with so many first person shooter. Most of actual games right now are based on wars or direct violence!!!! I really miss the good (and funnier) times. That's why I play my two amigas, superNES, genesis/megadrive or the Sinclair Spectrum, but I don't have nor like the PS3/xbox. The funnier part is when you make a retro-party with friends!
I wish I had realized how much I would miss my Amiga 500 years ago when my parents took it to a recycling center... it had a broken monitor and I had no idea we had a tv adaptor
The 1980's 8-bit era was so exciting. Today, computers have no soul........and the Micorsoft versus Apple (yawn) war is no where near as exciting as the Atari ST v Commodore Amiga 500 slugfest. Back then, comparing software and your baby's hardware capabilities in the school yard or CPU club was exciting, engaging and fraught with nerd aggression. No such thing now, we have been conditioned to accept mediocre generic machines that we have 2 upgrade every couple of years.BORING(yes,so is ipad)
@SonGOKUSSJ6 !!! you're right !!! present generations never will know what is the true magic of the games !!! We know that, cause we've felt all these games by our hearts all single detail had huge meaning for us at that times (i mean 90's) Today we've got something bad , something what does that we are tired about all of this !!! Before present times we have never felt this. Best regards for all people from old times. it still rulez in our hearts...
I remember purchasing my A1000 for 1200.00 in spring 86 and I loved that thing. I was in my room learning all i could that summer. The neighbors asked my parents where I had went since they hadn't seen me around the house in months.. I was in awe of amiga paint and watching that red/wht ball bounce around.
My Amiga 500, then Amiga 3000, are still 2 of the best computers I've ever owned. I'm typing this on an Alienware m17x...and I'd rather it would be some Amiga powered laptop from an alternate reality future.
Oh, and anyone who falls for this "commodore usa" bullshit is an idiot. Those aren't amigas, they're overpriced generic PCs running a crappy linux veriant.
@DanielChristy19 Commodore arent producing anything now. Theyre just a remnant. I believe someone else has the rights to the name now and are making some systems but theyre just modern machines with Commodores logo on. Nothing to do with the Commodore that once was sadly :(
I'm 25 and now a qualified IT tech. The C64 and Amiga 600 are 2 of my earliest influences responsible for my career choice. I will always think very fondly of them (and keep them :D)
The Amiga was so ahead of its time and could have easily outperformed any PC until now, but the Amiga was destroyed by huge management failiure. It' tragic.
Soo Sad.Damn i'm 33 years old and these were my life when i was a child.i grew up with them and at age 33 i'm still writing Commodore 64 or amiga in you tube's search box.So weird still thinking that days even now still feeling the excite i had when i was a child after this video or any video about Commodore 64 or Amiga.But this video makes me so sad.it's impossible to explain the joy,excitement and happiness when my family bought me Commodore 64 and then Amiga 500.They were my childhood :(
@SuperMrdicko i'm glad i'm not alone here because it is really impossible to describe that feeling.We are at the same age and they were old beautiful days :( At least they are not forgotten.
@BehzatPinar You are not the only one. I am now 20 me and my bro had Commodore 64 and a NES clone. But mostly i played Commodore 64 when i've found games on it. I love it much more than that NES clone. Now i've lost it...*bangs the head into the table* I SHOULD HAVE TOOK IT WITH ME BEFORE MY FAMILY MOVED D: . Now i am stuck to the emulators now.
@SonGOKUSSJ6 it's really nice to hear we are not the only generation who play Commodore.But believe me that days were magical i mean the days when there is only Commodore nothing else....i know there are monster game consoles now like Ps3 and XBox 360 and i'm already a PS3 owner but one day i'm sure i will forget Ps3 but i will never forget Commodore and Amiga.They were different they were magical.Anyway i'm glad younger generation like u know Commodore and like it.
Still have my C64 and my Amiga and my C64 games and my Amiga games I have about 300 of them - plus another 300 PC games, half of them big box games from the 90's -so I am STILL in the 'good times'! :)
I totally loved my A600, although I do seem to remember having to use pliers to remove the floppies from the drive (due to the eject failing after 2 days). Even so, many hours of my life spent with my trusty A600.
It is sad that most of the manufacturing has gone to china. Is this government going to let it all leave? Some needs to make a stand and say no more! I loved my C64 and I wanted a Amiga so bad when they came out.
@ChattanoogaPaintersIt is not the government fault all the time; it is also the people of our country willing to buy stuff made overseas (myself included). The people would rather spend less buying something that is made in some other country and then wonder why we have a shortage of jobs and why our economy is hurting.
@kd5exr People buy what they have access to. Most people do not look to see where a product is made. The big problem started when companies moved there production overseas to get it made a little cheaper because they could not compete. Now that they have it made where it can not be made cheaper how are they going to achive higher profits? There is a giant sucking sound and it is our wealth going to China to buy crap we may not even need. America home of the suckers! Buy American while you can!
Its really sad that Commodore had to go out of business. The computers they made then were miles ahead of their time, just imagine what they could have made now!
new amiga coming out soon! check it out - search for amiga x1000 in your favourite search engine! can't wait to see this beast in action... just a few more months to go! xD
@pettinhouse I saw a website with recent photos of Commodore's West Cester factory (the one in this very video). It's completelly empty without electricity and not running (ofcourse). The factory is dusty, rusty and slowly crumbling down as nobody maintains it. Trees and grass as growning beside the office building. It's a ghost factory really. I hope that the factory will be left alone. As a monument of Amiga history. Unfortunatelly the website which had the photos has been taken down.
Commodore US was scared of the facts. Facts were Amiga's main strength was gaming and everything else was niche or secondary. If they'd embraced the machine for what it was early on it would have been a huge success. Commodore Europe did exactly this and the Amiga was the #1 selling home computer in most of Europe for years and years.
I still got a commodore 64 in my garage when my dad brought it when it first came out never opened how much you think its worth? anything at all my brothers wanted to throw it out but for some reason i could never bring my self to do it.
@toptorque its probably not that market valuable since their are suprisingly still quite a few, but they are quite valuable and i suggest you keep it.. even use it once or twice again :)
There will never be another computer like the C64 and the Amiga. I often wonder what the Amiga would be like today if CBM had not folded.Thanks for this video!
I miss Amiga Workbench so much... My windows runs on 3Ghz processors and it's still far slower than Amiga DOS running on 14Khz or even 7Khz one. Emulation is not a solution in this case pentiums still cannot handle this. What a fuc**g shame it's gone...
@metroidvera Yes, we saw the end of the Soviet Union and it seemed like there was hope for the future. And now...we're stuck with a bitter, cold PC world.
I'd like to go back in time, buy the OS for peanuts and release it under the GNU General Public License. Rewrite the OS to work with regular PC hardware and every other kind of computer hardware, just like Linux,
Somehow "people"are good in distroing fine companies, like Commodore use to be. Is it because of the 3 months future (stock market driven) vision they have? Or is it just bad luck? If you ask me, It's just inherent to the economic system.
It wasn't that long ago I was telling Amiga fans that it's dead, get over it, it's time to move on. But, a new Amiga is on the way. Due I believe in no small part to the mad faithfulness of the fans. Lets hope the X1000 is worthy of the name "Amiga". Here's to the fans who kept the dream alive! Cheers!
I so miss the Amiga, and C64 for that matter, where I could ASM program them both since 1983. I was sad when 1994 came around though and lets not forget the embezzlement did not help them.
Commodore raised the bar so many times in the golden age of home computing- Their machines were exeptionaly well made and always had the best games. rip
johnredpath 2 weeks ago
Amiga forever :)
ivanskido 1 month ago
Its hard to believe that the Amiga is no longer. I will have Workbench 3.1 disks. Probably don't work anymore, but, I just can't throw them away. This brings a tear to my eye. The Amiga was the best computer of that time, no doubt about it in my opinion. Long live my memory of a great computer.
detrix42 1 month ago 2
@detrix42 Let us listen to C64 and Amiga musics on Youtube for ever.
TomiTapio 1 month ago
The best computer in history, even better than Apple.
anibalsc 1 month ago
smutno:(((((((((( zlote czasy ,
MegaDembol 2 months ago
Competitor many times went with prices bellow normal earnings and bancrupted in short time taking with them 3 or mor companies. This is unstable market and I amnot economist and see this. This must be regulated from State level, but capitalism allows all sleazy tricks. This vacuum is oportunity for new volfs but mostly that are the rich ones with proper info and connections and money. The rest can sell fake dreams, pick up lines, fake job opportunities, penis enlargment pills, date services, etc
misekmoj 3 months ago
... for homeusers, because they get clients by that for compainies which pay A LOT. And when someone is used to Windows OS and other software, he will have a hard time to go to Linux. I am a Windows "addict" and prefer Windows over Linux because I can do something with it. MS studied the market well and users psychics. Commodore was naive in this sense, they probably thought the product speaks for itself. But competition is shit and many times sleazy, hungry and careless...
misekmoj 3 months ago
Bill Gates was never a genius programer we all know that. He just know how to sell and he had connections with it. He made a good business and easy money. Abaut Windows it is normaly that you are being brainwashed at companies like MS. In crisis times like this you are ready to sell your soul to make a living. And all that commercials abaut western managers in nice suits and practically no education only intuition and ego matters we have it that way. MS doesn't really bother for antipiracy at...
misekmoj 3 months ago
awesome
lpgccarlos 3 months ago
The Commodore factory was pretty much like Google today, a playground for creative people with lots of innovative ideas and hard working spirit. The Amiga was primary a graphical game computer while PC where boring boxes running DOS. However, what it lacked was an serious Office suit. Wonder what PC would have been without Microsoft?
fredrik999z 3 months ago
I miss Amiga:-((( I spend my best years with her!
AltinakisGeorge 4 months ago
Why is anything related with electronics factories blue in color??
Kg277 4 months ago
us Amiga gamers are a rare lot. Not many of us. And we're old. Dynamite combination for no one remembering what we're talking about :)
BeefyTremendous 4 months ago
@BeefyTremendous Old? Speak for yourself, I'm 29 and loved the Amiga :P
techguruuk 3 months ago
@techguruuk I mean old in the gaming sense. I am 30 myself. I was just waxing nostalgic and being wistful about it. Relax dude.
BeefyTremendous 3 months ago
So what happened to the old warehouse today? Is it still there? Glad I still have my two Commodore Amiga 1200 computers! The best computer ever!
starbase121 4 months ago
@starbase121 I believe it's QVC studios now.
techguruuk 3 months ago
I had a Commodore 64 then an Amiga 500. I loved Commodore, a shame Bil Gates Steve Jobs or Wozniak did not buy it.
jvarela965 5 months ago
I visited a show at this plant in late summer of of 1990. How empty and eerie to see it like this.
roberthurstrius 5 months ago
@Freeleacher Original Disks came with protection which xcopy could not copy. Well it could copy but in case of Walker game it would only play through the 1st level.
EFileTahi 5 months ago
If this company would have had a proper management, it would be Amiga computers, and not Windows PCs, which would rule the market today. I have no doubt. Commodore developed a 32 bit system already in the mid 1980s, ten years before Microsoft presented 32 bit as an "innovation". And Amiga computers really do have a soul. If you switch them on, you become one with it. This is something which never happens with modern PCs and games.
I miss Commodore. This video is like an untrue nightmare :(
AirSimming 5 months ago 2
@AirSimming No, Commodore never got a grip on the office market like PC and Microsoft. It did well in graphical industries and computer games but it was never taken serious by other companies. The Amiga was a "toy computer" rather than a serious workstation. It wasn't just Commodore that killed it, it was the software market that actually made the PC more popular.
fredrik999z 3 months ago
@fredrik999z Commodore had a bad management which canceled almost all the innovations. The biggest error was to sell the Amiga 600, which was no innovation at all. It was a disaster. This actually marked the end or Commodore.
Beside Microsoft, Apple also got a grip on the office market. Microsoft just was on the right place at the right time, which made developers shift to Windows. With Commodore being innovative, the market for sure would look different today...
AirSimming 3 months ago
@AirSimming Yes, they did a lot of mistakes but it wasn't the only reason for their downfall. In the 90's the computer industry changed a lot and so did computer games. The Amiga platform was not prepared for things like 3D-games, internet and expandable computers. There where no chance they could keep up with the fast development of sound, graphics and network hardware of the PC platform. Amiga 1200 was not good enough to compete against PC and expanding was expensive and complicated.
fredrik999z 3 months ago
@fredrik999z Yes, the Amiga 1200 could not compete. Already the Amiga 600 was behind of the time due to bad management . But the Amiga 1200 already could be used for 3D gaming. Doom run on it fine actually, like on the 80383 PC. But at that time Commodore already was down and A1200 was sold by Escom. No developments anymore. They canceled everything in the early 90's. They missed the time and software developers changed to the PC platform.
AirSimming 3 months ago
@AirSimming When A1200 was introduced in late 1992 there where 80486DX2 CPU's, HiRes VGA graphics and 16-bit sound available for PC. A year later Intel introduced the Pentium CPU. A lot faster than the 680X0 series. Escom took over production in 1995 and canceled it in summer 1996. There was never an accelerated 3D-card available for the Amiga so software rendition was the only option. They had no chance to compete.
fredrik999z 3 months ago
@fredrik999z Microsoft has a dominating position. It could be easy to develope games and all other software for Linux and Mac OS as well. But M$ just sells better, because almost any computer comes with M$ because it just is the best cash cow. It's all about money. In fact, compared to Mac OS and Linux, Windows is not any better. It's actually worse but most easy to use for any average joe. It's something for the masses, not for the classes ;)
AirSimming 3 months ago
@AirSimming Well, the reason why Windows is pre-installed is because 99% of the market actually wants it. Why would anyone write a game or program for something that just 1% is using? Windows is better than Linux in every aspect otherwise they would never be able to sell it.
fredrik999z 3 months ago
@fredrik999z Regarding Windows: it's not that 99% wants it, but 99% just gets it because almost any new PC is sold with Windows. The average Joe doesn't know that there is something like Linux. He has the choice bewteen Apple and PC. But Apple is "too expensive" for him, and a Linux PC does not exist, so the Windows PC is the only choice. PC developers make a lot of money by selling their hardware with Windows, not because people want it but because MS pays best to hold the monopoly.
AirSimming 3 months ago
@AirSimming
I don't see where you get your 'facts' from. The market opt for Windows because while may not be the most efficient OS, it is very well supported, it is a sure fire operating system and can do anything as expected a computer can do because it is the 'standard'.
Linux is very efficient however it's not as well supported as Windows and you don't have that peace of mind knowing that you are bound to have something work.
RussianWarClub 3 months ago
@fredrik999z Bill Gates is not a genius software developer, just like Steve Balmer is not. Windows is poor compared to what Linux Ubuntu for example offers, and all this for free. Bill Gates and Balmer just are marketing experts. They were on the right places at the right time. And they don't even make all the money just by selling Windows. It's the support for companies.
AirSimming 3 months ago
@fredrik999z And those companies are mostly held in stupidity, unless they have admins who know it better and suggest Linux over Windows. I know it because a friend of mine works in that business, for Microsoft. But you can not talk to him, since during his qualification, which he got from Microsoft of course, he really became brainwashed. He even was told complete nonsense regarding Linux. And he spreads the propaganda whenever he talks about his job at Microsoft. We always collide...
AirSimming 3 months ago
@fredrik999z But never mind. Commodore doesn't exist anymore and MS holds almost the entire market. So why bother ^^
AirSimming 3 months ago
@AirSimming Well, I think Commodore/Amiga plays a very important role in computer history and what we have today in both software and hardware. They introduced several new technologies with the Amiga 1000/500 platform that took years for others to catch up. Also, they showed the world that computers can be anything else than boring boxes and set path for thousands of creative game developers world wide.
fredrik999z 3 months ago 2
This is like attending a funeral, or visiting a dead relative's house.
Kattywampus 5 months ago
@Freeleacher Uh, no. Mehdi Ali killed the Amiga by willful mismanagement.
sakodak 5 months ago
The Amiga was the greatest. I had the opportunity many years ago to speak with Steve Jobs about the Amiga - even he was enamored with it. It was a truly special machine with great people such as Jay Miner. It was a different bunch of folks back then - people with heart and soul and a user community like none other. Apple had a bit of that for a while, but now it's just another computer company. I really miss the Amiga and most of all the wonderful people that went along with it.
josephgut 6 months ago 11
nooooooooooo :(((((((((((((((
lordnipple 6 months ago
@Freeleacher the user who choose x86 systems killed Amiga, not the Amiga-User :-/
FreeWinSlave 6 months ago
@FreeWinSlave Bad management actually kill it. Amiga evolute quite little since the early 90's while the PC was getting quite stronger year after year. Soon you could notice the difference between a PC Graphics vs Amiga's not-any-more-impressive-graphics. Piracy also didn't helped of course which caused to software companies to either bankrupted / switched to other platforms so they could remain alive.
EFileTahi 5 months ago
Damn...no copy protection? they commited suicide...
aninhav10 6 months ago
what did they do to all the paperwork and boxes. Spare parts, machines etc.
MyMIXmedia 6 months ago
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@Freeleacher "Its only a machine that had no copy protection on its software, xcopy killed the amiga"
First of all, there were plenty of copy protection schemes.
Second of all, every copy protection scheme for Amiga, Mac, Windows, and Atari were cracked. Amiga was killed by mismanagement. Commodore was making plenty of money through the C-64 and they ignored the Amiga as a result.
fuzzywzhe 6 months ago
8bit/16bit geek's Mekka.
soberek 6 months ago
Normalka wszystkie najlepsze firmy tak konczą Tonsil w polsce podobnie upadł a teraz zburzyli budynek ! szkoda ze Commodore tak skonczylo do dzisiaj mam a4000 i 1200 nie sprzedam ich nigdy
MegaDembol 6 months ago
i used to love my amiga. just headaches for years trying to adjust to the loss of the company .. video toast was fun to use. the games rocked. the monitor was so hi quality for the time.. what the hell happened?? what a shame
davesmasher 7 months ago
Talk about walking on holy ground.
I wish I lived closer so I could pay homage to this most sacred of places.
MrFlibble2011 7 months ago 2
Never really understood why they went out of business so damn fast? what happened
Liquadia1 7 months ago
Amiga. The only machine ever with a soul.
MrFlibble2011 7 months ago 3
this is very sad video! tr0d, you will go to hell !
;]
mzemblow 7 months ago
Hey Apple's OSX (Lion) is about to introduce FULL-SCREEN APPS! FULL SCREEN!! And you can run multiple apps in full-screen!! ;)
pixelsmack 7 months ago 2
@pixelsmack begone, Satan.
MrFlibble2011 7 months ago 4
@pixelsmack Windows 8 will too...
matejajax 6 months ago
The Amiga wasn't just about games, it was the best platform all round including business applications which had better design and better graphics than anything the PC could hope to produce. I have yet to see a text editor on the PC that has silk-smooth scrolling like the one I had on the Amiga (Cygnus Ed).
The Amiga attracted better developers who in turn made better programs.
But the paranoid business world deciders, mostly a bunch of clueless sheep, hated taking any risk and chose the PC.
RabidRat88 7 months ago 2
@RabidRat88 yes your correct and the amiga was good for porn too .
TheMarkc 7 months ago
Jay worked at Commodore-Amiga for several years, in Los Gatos, California. They made good progress at the beginning, but as Commodore management changed, they became marginalised and the original Amiga staff was fired or left out on a one-by-one basis, until the entire Los Gatos office was closed. Miner later worked as a consultant for Commodore until it went bankrupt. En français: " Bien mal acquis ne profite jamais"
Skyzboob 7 months ago 2
There are millions of people like myself that have very great memories of there youth playing the Amiga. For me it was a time that gave me much joy and looking at todays games I really can't say that. Yes I am older and more wiser but Amiga games had soul which is very much missing from todays gorgeous graphical features. Bring back Bulldog and games like Powermonger and Populous II.
pixiesoft 7 months ago 2
Very sad indeed... and amazing that, almost TWENTY years later, people are still excited about the Amiga. Ah well. There's no way an Amiga could ever compare with the raw computing performance and convenience that I have under my fingertips now, but it sure was fun, and the best you could get at around 1990.
SeverityOne 8 months ago
This will be Microsoft one day !
dark1ankh 8 months ago
I like how the Commodore Applications & Technical Support dept' was known as CATS.
The equivalent Microsoft dept is probably something similar, after replacing the 'A' with 'UN'
LinuxRaymaker 8 months ago
the commodore generation is still rocking ! it aint over !
VddEnergise 8 months ago
the best days of my life were spent with my AMIGA 500 + and 600, which were light years more advanced than the stupid motherfuckers IBM PC's that do not serve for nothing!
TheHG1984 8 months ago
this vid makes me wanna smoke crack :(
Jauly 8 months ago
Hallelujah!!! Sad to see it. They literally killed it with the indecision of including 16-bit sound with A1200. That would have made it and not break it direct competitor with emerging Apple and SoundBlaster sound cards.. Stupid overly thrifty untechnically uneducated CEO's from the '60s! From Mr. A500/A1200.
AbgebeSpermium 8 months ago
A very sad day indeed.
cebudave 8 months ago
Where did we go wrong?
drohmascourge 8 months ago
One of the most revealing lines in the entire video, really gives some historical perspective:
"I think the bigger [warehouse] is shut up. People were rollerskating in it."
BigGermanBassoonist 8 months ago
We missed the future that day...
MalasNovas 8 months ago
allright, this is fucking heart wrenching :(
xoen6 8 months ago
it's like end of youth :E.
xoen6 8 months ago
First Acid House tracks were made on the Amiga.
malabus 8 months ago 2
I've chosen "thumbs up" for this vid, but it wasn't even close to express what I've felt...
soulTlMAThE 8 months ago
Comodore Amiga ended and Microsoft took over years later. There is no God!
warwick2155 8 months ago
@warwick2155 Nah, come on! Its "just" management-failure. Thats all. Same with atari and so many others. New world, new technology, new errors to make. Same rules ever. Survival of the fittest... (and: wow, did that video touch me... Greetings to all you amiga guys out there!)
KhalidNbg 8 months ago
@warwick2155 amen
therealb3yond 8 months ago
I have box's of software if someone is interstead
Hollywoodish 9 months ago
@Hollywoodish how much would are you selling them for?
ComradeZX 8 months ago
I left my perfectly working Amiga 500 in the attic when I moved out of state. I wonder if the new owners ever found it and hooked it up.
relhcse 9 months ago
This plant is where QVC Shopping TV channel is now.
TheInformalstyle 9 months ago
I was almost crying.. I have so many memories with my Amiga 500.. You can't even compare the fun that we got during 90s with the current generation. Since you are making the games more realistic, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is gonna be more fun. Amiga generations secret was its simplicity. I felt old.. I missed old days..
drcolakoglu1907 9 months ago 16
@drcolakoglu1907 Completely agree with you. All over the world there's a crowd of people thinking that way (mostly mature people). Today's youth is corrupted with so many first person shooter. Most of actual games right now are based on wars or direct violence!!!! I really miss the good (and funnier) times. That's why I play my two amigas, superNES, genesis/megadrive or the Sinclair Spectrum, but I don't have nor like the PS3/xbox. The funnier part is when you make a retro-party with friends!
ocelete74 8 months ago
4:19 is where the "good stuff" is at!
jci10 9 months ago
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DS1221 10 months ago
sad day
DS1221 10 months ago
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MigDetBareMig 10 months ago
I wish I had realized how much I would miss my Amiga 500 years ago when my parents took it to a recycling center... it had a broken monitor and I had no idea we had a tv adaptor
war666head 10 months ago
The 1980's 8-bit era was so exciting. Today, computers have no soul........and the Micorsoft versus Apple (yawn) war is no where near as exciting as the Atari ST v Commodore Amiga 500 slugfest. Back then, comparing software and your baby's hardware capabilities in the school yard or CPU club was exciting, engaging and fraught with nerd aggression. No such thing now, we have been conditioned to accept mediocre generic machines that we have 2 upgrade every couple of years.BORING(yes,so is ipad)
1861robertelee 10 months ago 4
@1861robertelee Amen brother.
goyroyni 9 months ago
im depressed now i gonna smash my windows pc up and get drunk!
hitachipaul 10 months ago 6
That's really sad. :(
thirteenthstep14 10 months ago
@SonGOKUSSJ6 !!! you're right !!! present generations never will know what is the true magic of the games !!! We know that, cause we've felt all these games by our hearts all single detail had huge meaning for us at that times (i mean 90's) Today we've got something bad , something what does that we are tired about all of this !!! Before present times we have never felt this. Best regards for all people from old times. it still rulez in our hearts...
MrSaju1 10 months ago
I remember purchasing my A1000 for 1200.00 in spring 86 and I loved that thing. I was in my room learning all i could that summer. The neighbors asked my parents where I had went since they hadn't seen me around the house in months.. I was in awe of amiga paint and watching that red/wht ball bounce around.
compactorkid 10 months ago
My Amiga 500, then Amiga 3000, are still 2 of the best computers I've ever owned. I'm typing this on an Alienware m17x...and I'd rather it would be some Amiga powered laptop from an alternate reality future.
Paynekillah 11 months ago
Damn, this is depressing... This was actually BEFORE the Internet came about for the average joe...cheezus...
deslegumes 11 months ago
when was this recorded?
GrandmasterN 11 months ago
@GrandmasterN April 27, 1994
Artybruh 11 months ago
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horsehaire 11 months ago
Hollowed ground.
Oh, and anyone who falls for this "commodore usa" bullshit is an idiot. Those aren't amigas, they're overpriced generic PCs running a crappy linux veriant.
richardmaudsley77 11 months ago
@DanielChristy19 Commodore arent producing anything now. Theyre just a remnant. I believe someone else has the rights to the name now and are making some systems but theyre just modern machines with Commodores logo on. Nothing to do with the Commodore that once was sadly :(
I'm 25 and now a qualified IT tech. The C64 and Amiga 600 are 2 of my earliest influences responsible for my career choice. I will always think very fondly of them (and keep them :D)
NeoHoshi 1 year ago 2
This brings back memorys from the 80´s, I did not have a Commadore, but a ZX spectrum, an later a PC. But lots of my frinds had a Amiga.
MrJumper68 1 year ago
A more holy site than the Vatican. Amen.
TubeDestroyer2010 1 year ago 57
@TubeDestroyer2010
I could not have said it better myself Yes a more holy place
explorer648 8 months ago
@TubeDestroyer2010 Basically everything in existence (except for religious doctrines, and everything related)
is more holy then the vatican, which I refuse to spell with a capital first letter. As far as unholy exists, the vatican is just that.
godverdegodverdomme 4 months ago
:(:(:(:( sad day.
but Amiga stay a live. not like in the past, but we can make the future!
AmigaOne X1000 and Sam 4x0 with AmigaOS 4 is a new hope.
[]'s
ice2642 1 year ago 3
They were all so sad after Kurt Cobain died, they just decided to call it a day.
wootlanter 1 year ago 2
The Amiga was so ahead of its time and could have easily outperformed any PC until now, but the Amiga was destroyed by huge management failiure. It' tragic.
securitysystem 1 year ago 2
How depressing, an end of a beautiful era... still we will always have the sweet memories of the Amiga!
madeeha83 1 year ago
did the move production or did they go of biz?
HOODYWOODRECORDS 1 year ago
@HOODYWOODRECORDS They went out of business for good. :(
potsy5656 1 year ago
wasnt there a comodore 2000 and 5000?
103littlebastard 1 year ago
:( :( :( :( :( ;(
1xWertzui 1 year ago
this place is qvc the home shopping channel now!
neogeolabs 1 year ago
Thanks.
Colortiniz 1 year ago
huh I didnt know jeff goldblum worked for commodore
AlfredRusselWallace 1 year ago
THE COMMODORE GENERATION IS STILL ALIVE
VddEnergise 1 year ago
it was in 1994 the beginning for me of Commodore not the end :)
VddEnergise 1 year ago
Soo Sad.Damn i'm 33 years old and these were my life when i was a child.i grew up with them and at age 33 i'm still writing Commodore 64 or amiga in you tube's search box.So weird still thinking that days even now still feeling the excite i had when i was a child after this video or any video about Commodore 64 or Amiga.But this video makes me so sad.it's impossible to explain the joy,excitement and happiness when my family bought me Commodore 64 and then Amiga 500.They were my childhood :(
BehzatPinar 1 year ago 5
@BehzatPinar couldn't have put it better myself, well said!!!!
SuperMrdicko 1 year ago
@SuperMrdicko i'm glad i'm not alone here because it is really impossible to describe that feeling.We are at the same age and they were old beautiful days :( At least they are not forgotten.
BehzatPinar 1 year ago
@BehzatPinar You are not the only one. I am now 20 me and my bro had Commodore 64 and a NES clone. But mostly i played Commodore 64 when i've found games on it. I love it much more than that NES clone. Now i've lost it...*bangs the head into the table* I SHOULD HAVE TOOK IT WITH ME BEFORE MY FAMILY MOVED D: . Now i am stuck to the emulators now.
SonGOKUSSJ6 1 year ago
@SonGOKUSSJ6 it's really nice to hear we are not the only generation who play Commodore.But believe me that days were magical i mean the days when there is only Commodore nothing else....i know there are monster game consoles now like Ps3 and XBox 360 and i'm already a PS3 owner but one day i'm sure i will forget Ps3 but i will never forget Commodore and Amiga.They were different they were magical.Anyway i'm glad younger generation like u know Commodore and like it.
BehzatPinar 1 year ago
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BehzatPinar 1 year ago
A sad day for humanity.
Israfel85 1 year ago 98
@Israfel85 Dude in 1994 i was just starting to use a amiga ..and it was the beginning of a big adventure !
VddEnergise 8 months ago
@VddEnergise I have gotten an Amiga 500 and 1200 now.
Israfel85 8 months ago
Really sad story. The C64 is still the most sold computer ever and the Amiga was also very successful. Loved the old C64 days.
Celeon999A 1 year ago
Still have my C64 and my Amiga and my C64 games and my Amiga games I have about 300 of them - plus another 300 PC games, half of them big box games from the 90's -so I am STILL in the 'good times'! :)
HardWarUK 1 year ago
It breaks my heart.
fenrisulvr 1 year ago
AMIGA FOREVAH!
amiger421 1 year ago
sorry, did not vote..
this video makes me crying.... :(
Striker2971 1 year ago
I totally loved my A600, although I do seem to remember having to use pliers to remove the floppies from the drive (due to the eject failing after 2 days). Even so, many hours of my life spent with my trusty A600.
tmcoleman999 1 year ago
my mint condition A4000 040 is on eBay now.
happy bidding
duckgeezer 1 year ago
It is sad that most of the manufacturing has gone to china. Is this government going to let it all leave? Some needs to make a stand and say no more! I loved my C64 and I wanted a Amiga so bad when they came out.
ChattanoogaPainters 1 year ago
@ChattanoogaPaintersIt is not the government fault all the time; it is also the people of our country willing to buy stuff made overseas (myself included). The people would rather spend less buying something that is made in some other country and then wonder why we have a shortage of jobs and why our economy is hurting.
kd5exr 1 year ago
@kd5exr People buy what they have access to. Most people do not look to see where a product is made. The big problem started when companies moved there production overseas to get it made a little cheaper because they could not compete. Now that they have it made where it can not be made cheaper how are they going to achive higher profits? There is a giant sucking sound and it is our wealth going to China to buy crap we may not even need. America home of the suckers! Buy American while you can!
ChattanoogaPainters 1 year ago
A lot of great things came out of this building. I miss my old C64 and A2000.
Ducksel 1 year ago
If I could just steal as many of that Commodore merchandise as possible...
Novetrix 1 year ago
Its really sad that Commodore had to go out of business. The computers they made then were miles ahead of their time, just imagine what they could have made now!
opl3toshiba 1 year ago
@opl3toshiba I KNOW _ check my channel 1994 was my goldon year andd the beginning of amiga
VddEnergise 1 year ago
America has shipped to China.....Turn the lights out please !
slartybardfast11 1 year ago
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djrikki2008 1 year ago
Such a sad video, loved the C64 and Amiga, games like Moonstone, Kaiser etc
Those were the days
78threelions 1 year ago
The tv series Babylon 5 was rendered on a series of Amiga computers.
saxdude251 1 year ago
it's cool you did this. A little piece of computing history...
c8udyp 1 year ago
ONLY 16 years ago... thats not to bad, good video tho
opelcambo 1 year ago
@opelcambo When Bigger was Better! lol
TERRANCIO 1 year ago
is there anybody who can tell me if there is still the commodore factory building and if yes what is it now instead of commodore?
pettinhouse 1 year ago
@pettinhouse I saw a website with recent photos of Commodore's West Cester factory (the one in this very video). It's completelly empty without electricity and not running (ofcourse). The factory is dusty, rusty and slowly crumbling down as nobody maintains it. Trees and grass as growning beside the office building. It's a ghost factory really. I hope that the factory will be left alone. As a monument of Amiga history. Unfortunatelly the website which had the photos has been taken down.
KarpowSCX 1 year ago
Commodore US was scared of the facts. Facts were Amiga's main strength was gaming and everything else was niche or secondary. If they'd embraced the machine for what it was early on it would have been a huge success. Commodore Europe did exactly this and the Amiga was the #1 selling home computer in most of Europe for years and years.
Silvertrine 1 year ago
@Silvertrine The amiga strength was graphics and animation.
Blitfast 1 year ago
@Blitfast and Music & Sound :)
VddEnergise 1 year ago
My first computer was the C64.
It is such a shame the Amiga was so far ahead of its time.
wretchedstare 1 year ago
I still got a commodore 64 in my garage when my dad brought it when it first came out never opened how much you think its worth? anything at all my brothers wanted to throw it out but for some reason i could never bring my self to do it.
toptorque 1 year ago
@toptorque its probably not that market valuable since their are suprisingly still quite a few, but they are quite valuable and i suggest you keep it.. even use it once or twice again :)
CobaltHex 1 year ago
this film was actually taken the last day before it closed? Wow, how sad. thank you for sharing with us. That was a big factory.
TargetRender 1 year ago
There will never be another computer like the C64 and the Amiga. I often wonder what the Amiga would be like today if CBM had not folded.Thanks for this video!
1947dodgewf32 1 year ago
R. I . P. Amiga - you were the BEST OF THE BEST!!! Stable, Fast, Nice Graphics and portable! What a computer!!! Thank you Commodore!
Strap1205 1 year ago
@Strap1205 defenily :)
VddEnergise 1 year ago
This makes me sad...but at least we can stil use emulators..yet it just aint the same like these good old days with the real ting...
Hyperpsycrow 1 year ago
I miss Amiga Workbench so much... My windows runs on 3Ghz processors and it's still far slower than Amiga DOS running on 14Khz or even 7Khz one. Emulation is not a solution in this case pentiums still cannot handle this. What a fuc**g shame it's gone...
maildogrup 1 year ago
Life was COMPLETELY different around this time.
metroidvera 1 year ago 28
@metroidvera it was good
emuholic 1 year ago
@metroidvera Yes, we saw the end of the Soviet Union and it seemed like there was hope for the future. And now...we're stuck with a bitter, cold PC world.
Suprasylph 11 months ago
Look at all the "junk" in the tech shop near the end of the video.. Man would I love to take that home.
megamarsvin 1 year ago
A day that marks the history of computing in general.
EstigiaSDTK 1 year ago
Sniff..............Former C64 C128 and A500 user. Duesenberg of computers
jvarela965 1 year ago
I'd like to go back in time, buy the OS for peanuts and release it under the GNU General Public License. Rewrite the OS to work with regular PC hardware and every other kind of computer hardware, just like Linux,
abergethirty 1 year ago
Sad. I never had or used an Amiga until I was in a college senior. I had to use one for Toaster for a video class. Heh. Is it always loud in there?
antdude 1 year ago
Somehow "people"are good in distroing fine companies, like Commodore use to be. Is it because of the 3 months future (stock market driven) vision they have? Or is it just bad luck? If you ask me, It's just inherent to the economic system.
1Unreal1 1 year ago
It wasn't that long ago I was telling Amiga fans that it's dead, get over it, it's time to move on. But, a new Amiga is on the way. Due I believe in no small part to the mad faithfulness of the fans. Lets hope the X1000 is worthy of the name "Amiga". Here's to the fans who kept the dream alive! Cheers!
Keruaran 1 year ago
Commodore made some hardware too fast and this is the reason why was they too expensive. See CD TV CD32 ectr...
uzsz 1 year ago
@uzsz Actually the CD32 is cheaper then a megadrive with the CD add on
And MUCH cheaper than the "64 bit" (Don't know of its true) 799 $ atari jaguar
janmansde3dede 1 year ago
In the warehouse, did he say Herman Miller... production lines? [3:07]
jiffyweb 1 year ago
how can someone not like this.. okay i don't like what happened to Amiga but i like this video
guitarmad89 1 year ago
I so miss the Amiga, and C64 for that matter, where I could ASM program them both since 1983. I was sad when 1994 came around though and lets not forget the embezzlement did not help them.
GhostOfACPast 1 year ago
Every time a watch this I get so sad :(