Comment by st_goliath
2 days ago
If you are interested in handmaking a replica, some enthusiasts have already replicated the PCB design and there is a zip archive with Gerber files floating around: https://www.applefritter.com/content/apple-1-replica-gerber-...
From what it looks like, the difficulty shouldn't be in getting a board made or soldering them, but sourcing the parts. Other than the odd 74 series ICs, the design includes some (I think memory?) chips that are nowadays more difficult to find than the 6502 & 6520.
I bet you can run the entire thing in CircuitJS and it would still be faster than the original.
Number crunching performance is definitely what people building Apple 1 replicas are aiming for.
yeah, 0.003$ MCU can run it.
Not sure if it was already posted here (most likely), and it's for a C64 but: https://youtu.be/MG3j_6DBCIE