Last day of a Commodore Amiga Factory

[@captainzeppos]

I've watched the full "documentary" a couple of times and it really is heart breaking. all of us who once owned one of these magnificent computers, will certainly know what I mean.

[@videodizer]

Yess

[@doctorsocrates4413]

I still have three amiga500s..love them...Very unfortunate such a wonderful computer suffered an early demise.

[@Afrotechmods]

This is sad. Thank you for sharing it though.

[@drunner78]

I still own an Amiga 500 and an Amiga 600...they still work fine!!Those were the days!!!

[@dragonforces]

I was about to start crying... already had tears in my eyes... early 90's when gaming was at its best... I wish I could go back in time, be 15 again and have my A500 :(

[@saami208blue]

Same here I had a 64 machine once in 90s and it was fabulous now I have it white casste player box pack new..

[@SeoOderNichtsein]

I still have the C16, C64 and Amiga 500 from my childhood today. They inspired me so much and gave me endless hours of fun. I still use my C64 at least once a week. Over the years the graphics and sounds improved, but the fun we had with this "old" mashines is unbeatable!

[@anibalsc]

The best computer in history, even better than Apple.

[@digger5521]

I met a guy selling old commodore bits at our local market, he told me he was head of commodore europe once, lived in switzerland etc, I believe him, I was involved in Amiga here in Australia. Great progressive machine at the time.

[@EdOscuro]

This video is rather eerie. Good that Mr. Haynie had the foresight to record this.

[@bwc1976]

My girlfriend is a huge fan of QVC, so I'm glad the building was able to touch both our lives.

[@aero2zero]

We used to say: AMIGA RULES FOREVER!

[@retrohoodie]

Never forgotten, thanks for the upload... Proud Amiga Owner up to this day....

[@gearhead5651]

What version

[@kefrensmegademo]

What a big shame , the real true legend in computer history went down ...

[@RyanMcDonald]

This makes me so sad. I loved my c64, a500, and a4000. Commodore engineering was brilliant. Commodore the company were total idiots.

[@gearhead5651]

I still have my amiga 500 and commodore 64, just love the old feel of it.

[@harpap3727]

Ryan you are right Commodore engineering was brilliant for example Jay Miner

[@ewfuoywoef32pri]

@@harpap3727 Please don't falsely credit Commodore engineering with Amiga design. The trademark of Commodore engineering is cost-management. Commodore engineering designed things like the Vic-20, C64, and Atari 520ST (arguably a C* design as it was "ready" as soon as Trammiel settled in at Atari). The Amiga was engineered by Jay Miner of Amiga, YEARS BEFORE Amiga was purchased by Commodore..

[@harpap3727]

You are right!

[@NULUSIOS]

Hey brother. :D I also love (I deny to use past tense) my C64, my A500 and my A4000. Also my Atari 2600 (which is technically also Commodore if you think that Miner designed it and used a Commodore/MOS CPU). I still have all the above. Commodore lost its mojo when Trammiel left (with all his bad decisions and temper, he was still WAY better than any following management).

[@Sangor]

Its a pity we don't have video when the place was at its peak, you can almost hear the ghosts of happier times filling some of those big empty rooms.

[@GarrettYarbrough]

Me and my brother graduated from a south Georgia highschool a year earlier, in may of 1993. Had the commodore 64 still out on a desk in my room at those times. Still have it today, still works, with the 1541 disc drive and c64 13" crt monitor and c64 matrix printer. At the time this was being filmed, we were getting ready for another hot summer here in south Georgia. The memories. 😊

[@UdoShan]

As a kid, I read "Family Computing" magazine (I think they turned into PC Magazine, or something like that) and they had compute prgrams for ALL the computer platforms in the 80s: PC, IBM AT, Atari 800XL, C64, etc. I always noticed that the Amiga was often separated from the rest of the Commodore line, and with GOOD reason. The Amiga was in a class by itself!

[@glenar22]

I'm living in Poland and me and my friends also had AMIGAs. We have so much good memories about/with this computer :(

[@laszlobalog2615]

I had a C=16 and C=plus 4, C=64 and an A500!!! I loved them!!! What was a cool machines and a great times!!!

[@808kiker]

Thanks to Dave for doing this.. You really filled an empty part for us who were dedicated fans.

[@ThomasGrillo]

I had the C-64, C-128, Amiga 1000, which I still have. This video was kind of sad. The Amiga beat the paints off any PC in it's day. Thanks for posting this video. Sure wish we could have seen the plant when it was alive, and thriving.

[@KKD1247]

Wow...what a video! So sad to see the place on it's last day. The Commodore's were fantastic - only the Mac came close. You had to have lived then to know the feeling of using an Amiga while your friends were trying to figure out how to use their primitive PCs!

[@beckx3000]

Thanks for all the good time that we spent with your product... the video makes me very sad :-( regards from germany

[@drcolakoglu1907]

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..

[@MrJumper68]

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.

[@Strap1205]

R. I . P. Amiga - you were the BEST OF THE BEST!!! Stable, Fast, Nice Graphics and portable! What a computer!!! Thank you Commodore!

[@ace942]

Thanks for posting the video. I never owned a Commodore computer but I had friends who did. I read a book called "On the Edge" (I think that was the name) that talked about Commodore's history and talked about the last few days of the company and i enjoyed your video and seeing it just before the doors were closed.

[@sabre3901]

I loved my A500 and It will always be the one machine I truly loved.

[@Caliber632]

Will we have a video like this about Facebook or Twitter soon I wonder?

[@johnredpath]

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

[@BrooksterMax]

Really interesting video, thanks for posting. You could see how big the operation would have been in full flow. A sad end. I was happy Commodore owner in the 1980s-early 90s. Sadly things change.

[@pixiesoft]

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.

[@SoulStarLA]

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.

[@fabiofabtube]

I was worried that at some time a T-1000 will came out from some of these room...btw, always sad to see the end of Commodore. just yesterday I watched J. Tramiel intervewed at Computer chronicles by Cheifet and Gary Kildall :(

[@WolfgangOrlinski]

Those computer chronicles are the best!

[@c8udyp]

it's cool you did this. A little piece of computing history...

[@paulklasmann1218]

A wonderful computer made by wonderful people. I recently assembled a 500++ PCB as my "new" Amiga and still have my original Amiga 500.

[@OvernightDrive]

KZbin's kickoff date: February 14, 2005 - This has to be one of the oldest videos on the platform. A great one!

[@RobertHurst]

I visited a show at this plant in late summer of of 1990. How empty and eerie to see it like this.

[@rosamannen]

So sad. so sad. Amiga will always be the best computer. I will always remember the fun and joy with my Amiga computers. Thanks to Commodore for making my life as happy as it was. RIP!

[@BartechTV]

To me, the Amiga inspired creativity. These days it's all about consumption.

[@markadam88]

i was only born in 1988 but i still really got to love the amiga ! i still had my amiga 500 still working ! :D with over 100 games

[@ckillerh3]

I rolled by the old facility last week . . all QVC now. The main entrance looks kind of the same though.

[@asphixmx]

Your video is sooo sad. I almost cry. I loved my Commodore 64, Plus/4, 128, Amiga 500, Amiga 200, Amiga 4000. Those were my favorite computers. Remembers me good old times with my friends, playing games. Too sad CBM had a terrible marketing.

[@Un533N]

Amiga will live forever inside me.... I still cant forget how happen i was while playing in amiga. And the strange thing is even the leastest Microsoft games and ps3 and xbox and any games lack THE TRUE FUN. Amiga your the main reason that letting me hear Music. and all the Amiga gamesmusic r Unforgettable ! Sorry for my english. Luv u Amiga forever.

[@KuroMicra]

Commodore had it all, and then lost it. I loved my A500 and A1200. Highly innovative machines that had die-hard followers like myself. It's hard to believe that the machine that made the PC look archaic is now dead and almost every home has a PC. There's no justice, is there? RIP Amiga. Never to be forgotten.

[@yungsamus6662]

Thanks for all Amiga ❤

[@BrekMartin]

Amiga was the best computer the world had to offer for a long time. Sad video to watch. Nice to see some hardware sitting around there. And a stack of A1000 boxes (I still got one .. the box that is). Cheers, Art.

[@SharkaBytes]

Very said indeed, the Commodore 64 and Amiga 600 were my first two computers and hold a special place in my heart. In the late 80 and early 90's that place must have bustled with activity.

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

My family owned several C64s (only the first was bought new). We always wanted an Amiga, but they cost too much for us. I remember my dad telling my mother he wanted to get me a C64 for Christmas, which was the only way she'd agree to let him spend so much on a computer. Turned out he only wanted it for himself and in order for it to become mine, I had to learn programming. I was an 8-year-old girl and he thought I couldn't do it. I learned how to program a text-based game in BASIC, but that wasn't good enough for him because it was only an excuse to keep me from getting "my" Christmas gift. Still have nothing but fond memories of C64. I still play the Christmas demo on KZbin every year and watch people playing some of my favorite games like Impossible Mission and Radar Rat Race.

[@paulrankin8578]

Impossible Mission was fantastic. ‘cormorant’ my favourite code word.

[@Movingvolations]

Commodore its such a shame, it will allway be apart of my life :-) thanks for sharing...

[@SeverityOne]

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.

[@BerryTheBnnuy]

Dave Haynie is a god! Legend has it that after he shut the camera off, he found an expensive floor waxer and started driving it around, bumping it into things and denting it up while singing REM's "It's the End of the World" but I've never managed to confirm the legend.

[@Databamse]

At 4:24 you can see the almighty famous amiga wrapper box. Those colored lines at the bottom of the box is so famous, not only on the commodore amiga, but also on the commodore 64 as well. I bought both c64 and amiga 500. The boxes in the video are Amiga 4000 btw.

[@Lainer130]

So sad.....Been over 10 years and I still miss the OS.

[@mistral1975]

Amiga is the best ever ! I am using A4000 for many years and I really LOVE IT !!!! Amiga will ive forever

[@moerislak]

....no words, only sadness..... Amiga forever..

[@1947dodgewf32]

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!

[@mgzt52]

I still have my amiga 600 hd and 1200. Superb fun and great pieces of kit,with one of the best football games ever bar none. Yes thats right the original SENSIBLE SOCCER. Superb video,very sad to see the once great commodore company turn to nothing. What a shame about the factory. Bring back the good old days : )

[@Stelletti]

This building still exists. It has been the HQ and studio for QVC since then

[@llynellyn]

@Kyntteri1 That day is soon :D, the AmigaOne X1000 is scheduled to hit stores before Christmas and will be running AmigaOS 4.1, apparently the system runs on duel core PowerPC architecture and has a revolutionary new co processor

[@Ichinin]

Thanks for sharing. I used Amigas for years from kick 1.2 to kick 3.0, and before that C64 and Vic 20. I still have a C64, a C64-II, a C128-D and Amiga 1200/030. If there is a fire in my appartment, i'll save them before any PC :o)

[@alfiery007]

To bad that they went out because I still have some of there stuff and I was going to get one of the towers. but can't find one... I don't know if there is anymore out there.

[@ChadQuick270W]

The best computer there ever was! It was a game machine and was built to play games with great sound and graphics. I still have my Amiga 500 and play games on it several times a week.

[@relhcse]

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.

[@reddwarfers]

It is saddening and depressing to see this but yet it is a historical video clip.

[@detrix42]

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.

[@canorhan6803]

her izlediğimde bir hüzün kaplıyor. Çok anılarımız oldu bu bilgisayar ile.

[@pyt82]

Damn, can I go back in time to live again the Amiga age? I really miss those days.

[@keithfulkerson]

My ears perked up when I heard that voice! I really wanted an Amiga back then, but we ended up getting a PC instead. :(

[@louismazzei5862]

Did all NTSC Amigas come from there? I think back to all of the Amigas I’ve had over the years and to the one I have now... great machines and vastly ahead of their time.

[@critanimeuk]

I loved the Amiga. I had an A500+ along with a friend. Unfortunately that died some time ago but someone at work kindly game me their A600 with a load of games. It's sat in my study right now along side of my new iMac. Once I get my C64 it will have another friend on the desk.

[@TheKid965]

I believe a major home-shopping channel (no plugs from me) uses the building for a warehouse today. I could be mistaken, though.

[@moraleh]

Coincido contigo tio... que recuerdos y que añoro le tengo a estas imagenes...

[@BaarBear]

Remarkable computer, the Amiga. Among other thiings it brought video editing to the masses via Video Toaster.

[@lordpoee]

@nhoodfan You'll be glad to know that it has, there is a NEW commodore PC (with the same keyboard design we love) it has DUAL-CORE processors :) The king has returned.

[@05Forenza]

I grew up using a Commodore PCIII. It was a great little computer. Well, I guess it wasn't really little, it was quite big lol. Not to mention we had an enormously heavy NEC monitor.

[@tmcoleman999]

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.

[@TrueFactFrenzy]

The greatest machine ever ! Kept alive by emus and the original machine, which I still have since 1988.

[@opl3toshiba]

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!

[@UlarisBadler]

@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.

[@financialfit]

Oh man, that's brutal! So sad to see that. I had worked for a very large bank that was closed down/taken over and our area branches were closed I remember how sad it was.

[@StuartFoxMusic]

The most productive I've ever EVER been was the time when I used an Amiga 1200 for my music.. I dont remember it ever crashing or causing any of the grief or heart ache that my PC's and Mac Pro's do.

[@charliegirl6]

Breaks my heart.... Thanks for sharing

[@LinuxRaymaker]

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'

[@16mmDJ]

Im so sad i had to miss the entire thing. this was 3 months before i was born. :(

[@VddEnergise]

the commodore generation is still rocking ! it aint over !

[@rsaba]

this is some rare and historic footage! should be kept forever! sad tought

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

i remember reading about Commodore's death in July 94, i felt sad and abit empty the whole day.

[@fredrik999z]

@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.

[@changofett77]

@miraxmoto Wow, i think that was great, it would be great if you share your experience working for Commodore!

[@Markytho]

Very fascinating and I've seen the entire video on Amiga Forever which I recommend everyone sees from Dave Haynie. I finally got a CD32 which I'll cherish forever I wish someone would've taken a camera into the UK one if there was a HQ, but Dave Haynie was clever and thoughtful enough to think ahead because if someone hadn't have done that then thought about it now then they'd be kicking themselves.

[@PornoLounge]

I loved my 500... was my first Computer... at this time there was no better to play games... the grphics were superb... but time goes on...

[@MarkSims77]

Do you think they will have a spare power pack somewhere so i can get mine running again?

[@godainiceguy]

I can remember when my parents bought me an Amiga 500. Was xmas, I woke up and I found this big keyboard on a chair connected to my TV. My father turned it on and put the "guide disk" and said "Go, learn how to use it". My first taste of tech. This video makes me cry...

[@MyMIXmedia]

what did they do to all the paperwork and boxes. Spare parts, machines etc.

[@Audiomancer]

Nice video. I was an avid C64 user from the age of six all the way through high school. The only reason I don't have it now is because my parents tossed out "that old thing" while I was in the Marine Corps. I was a bit angry:) Man, I still miss Chuck Yeager's Advanced Flight Trainer.

[@Tweekend27]

I remember that game was released with a free Quickshot joystick?

[@maniaque37]

Amiga is not dead even in 2019. I still have an Amiga 1200 and 600 and plenty of stuff and im not alone. You can still find Amiga stores on internet and places to buy Amiga software and hardware. There are even some companies making new Amiga hardware and software out there.

[@bilstonjay]

Sad to watch. I had thousands of hours of fun on my Commodore Amiga back in the mid 90s.

[@GhostOfACPast]

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.

[@fersoft]

Still have a Commodore Amiga 500 and 2500. The beste ever computer!!!!! Back please.