Ben Heck's Apple 1 Replica Part 1

3p8 ic?????????

I mean digital encoder

Is there a text guide for the replica?

why use the woz monitor instead of just having it boot straight into BASIC

65535 ... plus one ! (65536 bytes)

I thought Bushnell himself designed Breakout?

>Woz hand assembled the monitor and that's insane

This is actually more common than you think. I'm currently disassembling a translation patch for Telefang because, up until a year ago, we didn't have an assembler; and we don't actually know what we changed in our patches. Literally everything was done by hand. I suspect a lot of other romhack projects are handled the same way.

I can't get over the fact that you spelt monitor with an e.

what did you do this weekend?

Oh you know, I built an Apple computer in my garage.

what's the chip that has the BASIC program?

That's a $14,300 USD oscilloscope. No wonder I don't know how to just wire up a 6502 CPU with addre... oh fuck it.

Built by Woz only, jobs wasn't the brains

65536 bytes, not 65535

" Moniter" is spelt incorrectly.

I chuckled over the fact he used a $15,000 o-scope to test the functionality of a $15 computer. :D

Make a discrete calculator like those ones from the 1960s.

I am genuinely concerned for Ben Heck's mental health. Some of those sounds he makes are kind of weird.

any one interested in buying one of these let me know :)

Suggestion: Use different wire colors for address lines and data lines.

Steve Jobs conned Steve Wozinak to make the Breakout game. Jobs took a lot of reward money from Atari's boss and gave Wozinak, who singly created and programmed the game, only $500.

Jobs is a thief! And was until he died! I wonder how he is now resting!

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One thing I've long wondered is whether some simple wiring mods could have allowed the processor to output data to the display faster if it injected data into the shift registers at just the right time [the normal design would latch a byte of data from the CPU and then have hardware clock it into the shift register at the right time]. Even if the CPU wouldn't be fast enough to write two consecutive bytes in the same frame, it might be able to inject every tenth character or so. Apple I computers are too rare to be worth hacking with for such experiments, but a recreation that uses shift registers might be interesting to experiment with.

so sim cards are basicly mini computers capable of running msdos.. you should make it

Mind blown. I work in IT but now I feel like I just spent a year in an Engineering course but it has only been 20 minutes. Thank you for being a great teacher I never was able to understand most of this stuff until I watched your content! I am going to build a PI into a mechanical keyboard and make a new age commodore 64.

Reading so many comments below reminds me how much hate Apple and Steve Jobs get. No doubt Apple is getting expensive and are almost every year removing the features which customers love (from headphone jack(which many company started removing) to that magnet thingy to protect the cord charging the laptop.), but one cannot simply take the credit away for them for somethings they really gave to the world. Ah! now people will say that I am an Apple boy and an iSheep. Well, I still use my Nokia 2703 C1 because it still does the job (idiots are they who change their tech every second year.) And yes, I do agree that many Apple stuff is overhyped. Now someone will say that they copied Xerox's work. Well, even Microsoft did that. As Bill said to Steve once, "We both ripped of their work. But it was all about who did it first."

Coming back too the topic of role of Jobs in creating Apple 1, well it was a good one. Not comparable to Woz's role, but it was IMPORTANT. Why? Because he (Jobs) not only provide Woz with chips (Intel DRAM) at very low costs, but also gave him ideas of adding a disk drive to it, to make it into an ARPANET terminal, and to sell the stuff out so that HISTORY CAN REMEMBER THE NAME WOZNIAK.

No doubt, that move by Jobs of keeping the bonus all by himself was a bad thing. Truly bad. But as Wozniak puts it, " I am a kind of guy who gets butterflies in his stomach when he has to take to a room full of people." Our lovely introvert, down to earth Woz might not have been known to anyone had he not got clever friend like Jobs.

And do remember that Jobs was the one who soldered stuff out "because we had no chip to loose."


I would like to type out some lines from the book iWoz (I could have from Isaacson's, but I wanted to show what our lovable Woz thinks of Jobs),

1. "Then after a few days later I got AMI DRAM's working, Steve called me at work. He asked me if I would consider using Intel DRAM's instead of AMI.
"Oh, Intel's are the best but I could never afford them." , I told him.
Steve said to give him a minute.
He made some calls and by some marketing miracle he was able to score some free DRAM's from Intel-unbelievable considering their price and rarity at that time. Steve is just that sort of person. I mean, he knows ho to talk to a sales representative. I could never have done that; I was way too shy."


2. " And then he told me something he had noticed: the people at Homebrew, he said, are taking the schematics, but they don't have the time or the ability to build a computer that's spelled out in the schemtaics...."

"He said, " why don't we build and then sell the printed circuit boards to them?"..."

"But Steve had a good argument. We were in his car, and he said-and I can still remember him saying this like it was yesterday: "Well, even if we loose our money, we'll have a company. For once in our lifetime's we will have a company."
For once in our lives, we'd have a company. That convinced me. And I was excited to think about us like that. To be two best friends starting a company. Wow. I knew right the that I would do it. How could I not."

So I would just say this: everyone has faults. Some greater than other. But you gotta understand the work people do, and stand in their shoes. If you think you can do better, go on criticise them. Tell the big shots where they went wrong. But if you are someone who just believes the other guy, and not the original sources, then buddy, you gotta do your homework.



Read that book, iWoz. It's a great book. You will get to know a lot about the history of Apple, Woz's relationship with Jobs, and above all Woz's love for electronics. As an electronics lover myself, he is my hero, but I don't just idiotically criticise Jobs, just like I cannot criticise the dealer at my school for being rude, even though he brings us the tools we need at great prices.

The 6502 was not used in the Commodore 64. The C64 used a 6510 cpu.

can you guys make a schematic for one of these so your fans could try building one themselves

listen no hate to element 14 but the channel is too dry with out ben heck , i wasn't here for the education, i unsubscribed but its still showing up in my feed, please hire someone building butter robots or something fun, i cant take these dry coding videos

"timer circuit" for reset? never heard of dallas econoresets (DS1813+ for example) ? i know 'timer circuits' and 'rc circuits' and contraptions with zenerdiodes were the shit in those days but there are proper reset chips around nowadays, which only take a single to92 component, that also pull reset if there are brown out conditions while it runs. timer circuits do not monitor the voltage. (analog devices has something simular in 8 pin narrow dip)

fun fact: the Nintendo NES cpu is based on the 6502 cpu (almost identical) and manufactured by Ricoh ;D

What's with the silly channel name change

Ouch! All of those wires look like a bird's nest!

Why not extend this Apple board with a SD disk extension as cassette? for few bucks make it infinetly usefull.

wow senior people are the best!

is there schematics for this build? and where can I find them

Kruzader was not a part of the original Apple 1, but is a part of the Replica 1

THIS NOT A REPLICA, THIS IS AN UGLY COPY.

This us awesome. I never realized you could build something like this on a breadboard. As a software guy this just seems insanely messy and tedious! Can't wait to try it.

Wow....he.....knows like....alot!

Do you have a schematic of the work you did, or are you just using the Apple 1's schematic from the user manual?

Mini Commodore 64

....but... how?!

That Oscilloscope is ridiculously good looking. I don't know about the measurement stage but does it come with Matlab too?

Great video! I really learnt a lot from it. Thanks.

This is Ben with filters installed. Weirrrrrdd.

Watched this show when i was 14. My love for programming and electronic comes from jere…