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UZIX 2.0 DualHead screenshots

MSX Turbo-R GT, connected to two monitors: a color Samsung CGA and a Gradiente monochrome monitor The VMX80 cartridge in which the monochrome monitor is connected The UZIX login prompt on both terminals Logging as root on both terminals Running FudeBrowZer on one terminal while checking ping results on the other Shell assorted commands on one terminal while still checking ping results on the other The running processes. Note the two active shells, on TTYs 0 and 3 (TTYs 1 and 2 are the virtual terminals of the CGA monitor)

Overview: The VMX80 cartridge was released to get 80-column mode in MSX1 machines. It receives video input from MSX and has a video output to a monochrome monitor. VMX80 was produced in 1987 by Microsol Tecnologia. DDX and Gradiente also produced their own 80-column cartridges, called DDX80 and CT80. As an interesting note, CT80 has a V9938 VDP, and many of them where bought by CIEL/DDX just to get the VDP for MSX2 upgrade kits. Dualhead with CT80 would be very interesting, since it's capable of displaying full color graphics (SCREENS 0 to 3; 4 to 8 if more memory is added to the cartridge) and VMX80/DDX80 can display only text.