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A separate (color) monitor on a C64 was a real luxury in the mid-80s. If you had one, you were the king on the schoolyard and had a full house in the afternoon until your parents came home from work and kicked the whole bunch out.

The situation turned around a bit, and today there are quite a few solutions to coax especially modern, non-CRT monitors to work with an old school Commodore.

But the project by Ryan K. Brooks is special. Ryan has built a module for the cartridge port, that allows a C64 to operate two(!) monitors. 😳

Yep, dual monitor. 🖥⌨️🖥 

The project - christened VG64 - is open source and Gerber files, Jedec bitstreams and everything else you need, can be found on github.

The module supports two resolutions: 640x480 with one bit per pixel and 320x480 multicolor.

It took me a while to close my mouth. If you feel the same way, watch the short demo video and call the PCB producer of your choice.