radventureI keep throwing "COMX-35" in to a search bar at least fortnightly, hoping to stumble across new homebrew hardware or games, news etc..... searches usually don't show anything new but I did dig a bit deeper on a vague link, which ended up being a nice article at chiptune.cafe, discussing the CDP1869 CDP1870 / VIS
"The CDP1869 has two channels available: one, a square wave tone with an impressive range of 8 octaves, and the other a white noise generator that has 8 accessible pitches. With these, they had volume control over 16 steps."
The COMX-35 VIS/CDP1869: A Strange Chip for An Old Machine - The Chiptune Café
During the Microcomputer Craze of the late 70’s and early 80’s, the computer market saw a massive upsurge in the amount of new computers hitting the scene. Many famous sound chips widely used in the chip scene first debuted in computers that were released during this era, with probably the most well known example being the SID Chip in the Commodore 64. However, not all sound chips from this era were as popular as the aforementioned SID. Many of these ancient sound chips have faded into relative obscurity, rarely ever seen mentioned on the modern chip scene. The COMX-35, styled as the “Clever… …