Thank you for error correcting my memory, John! I probably confused it with the 
Model 100's Disk/Video Interface (DVI or MVT100). Or am I misremembering that, 
too, and it does have the screen mapped to RAM somewhere?

--b9

P.S. Twospruce's MVT100 is here: 
https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=VT100

BTW: at the bottom it says the high-ASCII extended character set doesn't exist 
and suggests upscaling from the Model 100's 5x8 font to 6x12 for VGA. If that 
hasn't been done yet, there may be a better starting point using the original 
DVI 8x8 font: 
https://github.com/robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts/blob/master/kyotronic/trs80-dvi-8x8.yaff




On January 18, 2026 12:03:40 PM PST, "John R. Hogerhuis" <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>"Again IIRC, the Tandy 200 can’t do that because the screen memory is
>stored in the LCD driver chips, right?"
>
>No, that is incorrect. True, the *pixel image* is not stored in RAM, just
>in the lcd hardware. But there are two RAM areas where the ASCII characters
>are maintained, LCD and ALTLCD (for restoring after switching control
>modes in TELCOM).
>https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Model_T_Cross_Map_RAM_Variables
>
>So I think you should be good for your port. No faking needed.
>
>-- John.

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