Title says it all, and if it came with its original OS wafer plus spare is it worth buying? Im curious and have the chance to part with some cash on one

They are limited in their use really. It is just a continuous cassette reel.

You can only save .PRG files you make yourself.

I have two of them, and keep them boxed now. I used them back in the day, to save some of my own programes on.

When I brought them from my mums loft last year, and tried the programmes, the reel snapped.

I had a taped copy of the database programme I made, but not the super ski session game I done.

Interesting bit of kit to have. You can daisy chain them through the cassette port, save from one 'wafer' to another etc.

It is sequencial in nature, like a cassette tape, but is a bit faster.
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Hmm, food for thought there, but would i be able to load up a game, hit the action replay and save to QDD? Would that be possible?

I had a QDD. FSSL (remember them?) used to sell them, and sent me three replacement machines before I had a working one. There was a trick way you had to tap the wafers on the table before using them to settle the tape inside, otherwise the capstan would rip all of the tape out.

There was a hacky way to make them work with Action Replay, but I've long since forgotten how and it didn't work with the freezer part of the cart.

Thanks for the feedback guys, i think im going to abstain on this then, wont do what I need it to do (which is to basically Action Replay a game or two onto a wafer) so I'll pass on this for now

Came very close too bidding on one of these.
If they were manufactured by Commodore, i would have acquired one by now for the hardware collection.
Does anyone actively use one. ?
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it was the reel that snapped. I opened it up, but too much reel to find the break.

The AR thing, has brought back some kind of a memory that it did work, but I can't think of it either. might try if I have time some time.
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I was eyeing up these things last month and decided not to bother. Finding wafers is a bit hard and because they snap I thought whats the point!

Im happy with my 1541-II and a box or two of NOS floppies

So what's the verdict.
Quick Data Drive, any good?

Only if Wafers could be sourced.
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It is more novelty value than anything else, although I did use them when I had them. It was easier than cassette tape.

Also price is a factor. What price can you buy one for?

The original box came with the QOS (Quick Operating System) and a spare Wafer.

If you are going to use .prg files, then it might be worth it.
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I had a discussion over on WOS about the possibility of manufacturing new and improved microdrive carts, and although most agreed that would be a cool thing to do, the manufacturing aspect and finding a company to do it threw up a brick wall, much the same that could be said about QDD wafers I suspect

I have two of these, but an important point is that they require their own OS on waver as well iirc.
So you can not just turn on the c64 and load/save from/to it.
It is pretty fast (about speed of normal 1541) but then again, TurboTape ist just as fast and you're better off using that I think.
And you can very well save AR freezes in turboformat to tapes ;-)
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don't know if you can do the same to them as you do with cassette tapes.
hit either side of the wafer, except the top, off a hard surface to try and free the cassette.

hope this makes sense.
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I have one with a few disks, some of them have labels with typed names, Motor Mania being one. I don't know if these were official releases or what.
Blanks are easier to locate on ebay as "wafadrive" as that's what the Speccites call them.

if you check out the menu on lemon Museum, Advertisements, miscellaneous, page 3. At the bottom there is an ad for the QDD.

It gives a list of 'Wafers' that they had for sale.
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Hi,

Does anybody has the Bin file for the Phanthom Cartridge that was supplied with the Quick Data Drive? I need it so that I can build the cartridge myself and not have to load the qos from wafers.

regards
Maurizio Banavage
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