🚀 go-pugleaf

      I have a few questions regarding GEM on the Atari that I hope 
someone on this net may be able to answer. (i.e. An urgent appeal for
help )


   1)   Normally when we wish to write to the screen with VDI, we
        are told that the physical workstation has already been opened
        by the DESKTOP application, so we must open a virtual workstation
        instead.
        What I wanted to know is this, a boot time, when the AUTO folder
        is running, VDI and AES, are not initialized, if I wanted to
        create an application program which uses VDI and AES, can I
        initialize them myself by issuing an open physicalworkstation
        and applinit() functions???

   2)   My second question deals with the DOS, when you format a disk
        using the DESKTOP format, is a boot sector created???
        If it is, I can't seem to find it!!! 
        The Abacus Books say it should be at side 0, sector 1, track0
        but when I use a sector editor, that sector certainly does
        not look like what the boot sector should be!!

	Any help on the above questions would be greatly appreciated!!

                          ====> Ray Wong <====