I've been using WDC Tools for over 7 years now... TIDE has it's issues, but I've managed to use it as part of my dev environment. As for the WDC SXB, I'd just yank the EEPROM and reprogram it to use the ACIA port with a Serial to usb adapter as a console. Granted, the W65C51 has the Xmit bug, but ...

Yes agreed - the board looks the business for sure.

However I cannot make any sense of a strategy right now to put code into it. I can copy and paste a few lines of assembler. Blindly use the linker etc, however after that all bets are off. When I upload (at least I think that's what is happening ...

Thanks Andrew...

I appreciate your help with this and thanks for the links...
I think I need a more basic approach.

The board powers up - that's good.
I really don't know what to do next!

If it was an Arduino I'd write a few lines of code in the IDE and get an LED blinking and understand it in 5 minutes.

With ...

Thank you for the response. I figure as a newbie anything that gets me going with the 6502 would be beneficial. I'm not looking for a C compiler just yet! Im really looking to code a few lines (with some help assembling it maybe) - a way to step through the code and view data and registers. Baby ...

Hello there...new to this resource.

Hope this question hasn't been asked before - or at least recently.
I just bought a W65C02SXB board from WDC. Looked like a modern and well built piece of kit...
Can't say that of the software IMO. Infact I was thinking it was abandon ware as the tools are woeful ...