WDC Tools Free download!

[floobydust]

Well, turns out WDC has also made a free download version of their tools as well.

http://65xx.com/Products/WDCTools/

Enter your email and they send you a link for the download. It's referred to as an AML version. I did do the download but haven't done anything with it yet, will try that later once I get some free time. Between the free programming manual and the free tools, I guess they're hoping some folks spring for one of their SXBs.

[8BIT]

I tried it but it crashes on installation and returns an error code 2721. Anyone else have the same? Windows 7 Home 32bit.

Daryl

[Benoit0123]

Same message here on Windows 7 x64 professional.
Will try on WinXP 32bits home edition at home.
From the Windows Event viewer...
Product: WDC Tools -- The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2721. The arguments are: ACTAWE, ,
(NULL)
(NULL)
(NULL)
(NULL)
(NULL)
and a long hexstring follows..

[BigDumbDinosaur]

From WDC:

• This Download Version is Currently Under Test. WDC will notify all interested parties of when it is available via WDC Social Media. Visit us on Facebook! Thanks

They are working on it, so please be patient.

[Tor]

Hopefully someone will relay the information to here when it's ready - I don't do facebook, as in: Completely blocked in the firewall.

-Tor

[floobydust]

Well, just returned from the body shop (had the toy buffed out after reassembling it) and tried it on both Win7 x64 and Win XP 32-bit Virtual Machines, same failure as everyone else. That's disappointing... hope they resolve it soon. My guess is if it's now going to be free, there's little reason for all 65xx users not to standardize on it, as it has a C compiler as well plus their debugger which works with their boards. Nice setup in all.

[BigEd]

I think these tools are not meant to be used with non-WDC cores, so that rules out some uses. (Makes sense, of course.)

[lordbubsy]

Just a few minutes ago, I successfully downloaded and installed WDCTools. I’m using Windows 7 SP1 32-bit. The WDCTools version is v2.0.5.0. It seems to be working correctly...

[8BIT]

Yes - it worked for me too now. I'll try it out this weekend.

[floobydust]

I also grabbed the new download this morning, installed it on both WinXP Pro and Win7 Pro x64. It works on both but I had to reboot Win7 as it kept coming up with an error not being able to create a TIDE log file. I tried some of my existing source code which was done with the older WDC pro dev kit and it seems to work the same. TIDE is a newer version but I've not checked much else (assembler version is the same). Overall, a nice free dev package.

[lak]

Downloaded WDC Tools on 28-12-2014

Looks like only the assembler and linker tools are activated.
The C compiler still requires a valid license.
Or that I'm missing something?

thanks.

[HansO]

lak wrote:

Downloaded WDC Tools on 28-12-2014

Looks like only the assembler and linker tools are activated.
The C compiler still requires a valid license.
Or that I'm missing something?

thanks.

I did some experiments with the TIDE application (W7 PRO 64 bits) and it does not assemble nor compile, cannot execute program errors.

The C compilers seems to work from the commandline, and do generate object files for a simple test C program.

TIDE seems broken. It does not look like a powerful IDE, just a shell around the DOS tools, and cant execute the DOS programs on my system.

[floobydust]

The new version of TIDE is a bit odd.... I'm using it on Win7 Pro 64-bit and it does assemble and link (I tried test stuff that seems to run the C compiler also). However, when launching it I get a dialogue box popup for user account control and being an unknown publisher. I have to answer yes to allow it to launch. If I set user controls so it doesn't need this, it won't work properly and has errors. I also noticed that if I set user controls to allow it to launch without the dialogue popup, then none of my custom profiles for ExtraPutty show anymore, nor can I create or save new ones. I'm not a big fan of Windows in general and only use it as a VM under Fusion.... but it has issues beyond just TIDE.

My older version of TIDE (earlier licensed version) has no problems launching and running under Win7 Pro 64-bit. I agree TIDE isn't much of an IDE... and worse, whoever is doing the coding for it either doesn't have access to many Windows versions or simply doesn't bother testing much of anything. It does load and launch under WinXP Pro (32-bit) without issues, so methinks that seems to be their main dev/test environment for the tools.

Just remembered one other problem with TIDE... in the new (free) version, the compiler and assembler paths (options dialogue setup) are crossed if you attempt to change them. In short, you have to manually enter the path/executable name or they get hosed up. Testing is everything.... who knew.

[lak]

wdc816cc.exe and wdc02cc.ex license error even on command line (Win7 home 64 bit).
Can I still purchase the license though its free?

[BitWise]

I was disappointed by the WDC tools, especially the IDE and uninstalled it after 30 minutes. I think the download page should include some statement of what is free and what needs an extra license.

It looked to me like this was design for XP and is yet to be updated for Windows 7 and later.

I'm sticking with my assembler.