Is there a development kit for the Saturn?
The original Sega Saturn Programming box (or P-Box) became available to developers before the retail release of the Saturn and was the first development kit available for the Saturn . The Sophia needs to have 2 processors installed to be a working development system but occasionally people sell the systems with only one processor.
Why did Saturn have an exclusive parts supply chain?
The exclusive market areas combined with the efficient parts supply chain also allowed Saturn dealers to pay the same price for repair parts. Other GM dealers had to compete with one another to keep their supply bins full, and they often had to buy parts from their rivals.
What was the purpose of the Saturn rocket?
The Saturn family of American rocket boosters was developed by a team of mostly German rocket scientists led by Wernher von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond. Originally proposed as a military satellite launcher, they were adopted as the launch vehicles for the Apollo moon program.
Can a Sega Saturn be modified for cartdev?
Cross Products could modify a retail Sega Saturn console and allow it to connect to the CartDev system. The Modified Sega Saturn that Cross Products sold to game developers was known as the DevSaturn and can be seen in this sort youtube video:
Where did most of Saturn’s employees come from?
–Most of the 9,000 Saturn employees (at the mid-1990s peak) came from other GM plants, through an agreement between GM and the UAW. This different kind of company was created by people who all came from the old, traditional kind of company.
Why did GM want to get rid of Saturn?
Some of the most passionate in the latter group were GM managers, employees and UAW officials in other GM divisions. They resented Saturn and are happy to see it go. But here are some impressive early accomplishments that were largely unpublicized at the time and have been forgotten in the years since.
Why did Saturn fail in the early 1990s?
Saturn, a GM company that had great promise in the early 1990s, ultimately failed because senior GM leaders couldn’t see the benefits of new ways of doing things and a new kind of organizational culture.
What was the unique feature of the Saturn?
Saturn’s unique power train (the so called “smart” transmission), its polymer body panels that didn’t dent or rust, its sand-cast aluminum engine block and its no hassle, no dickering retail sales experience–those were all nice experiments, but they weren’t really the GM way.