After quite a bit of searching I finally found what I was looking for.

This is in regards to the poorly named VT100 function that is included in
REX#.
I should have named it VT52 (sort of).

The Model 100 treats it's screen like a terminal, in a way.  There are
control codes that mimic much of the VT52, except for a  handful of custom
codes.
So, the DVI also obeyed these control codes.

The MVT100 video adapter, that works with REX# to enable an external video
solution for 80x24, also uses these codes to control the screen.

An alternative to external video is to find a way to send the video
characters over serial to a PC, and using the PC as a "DVI" (for the video
portion anyways).

I've been searching for a shortcut to developing such a "VT52 terminal", to
which I could add the special M100 control codes, and thereby have another
option for 80x24 video.

I found it.  Here is the project I am going to port.

https://github.com/kgober/VT52

It is a VT52 terminal emulator written in C#, and compilable in Visual
Studio.  I've been able to install the tools and been able to compile it.

So, I'm off now on a tangent to make a Windows (10) dotNET based
application.

I don't know if this will be portable to linux in any way, but lets see how
this goes.

..Steve

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