What does that have to do with the 68008? The 68008 works best with an 8-bit bus. There is no artificial limit imposed.
Seriously, the thing runs a line number BASIC editor, has a VDP from the early 90s, and a couple of buggy sound chips from the 80s, and the first thing you can think of as "artificially limited" is the CPU? It's a dated and inefficient design, but that's obviously the whole point of the project. If he wanted to build a computer without "crippling performance issues" he wouldn't have used any CPU from the 68k series.
So I think you should all stop whining about a few extra cycles spent on memory reads and realize that in terms of performance, the 68000 and the 68008 are two drops in the bathtub you get when if buy a decent cell phone. Whatever argument you are making, it could as well escalate into "why not a 68020", "why not a Coldfire", "why not an ARM" or "why not Intel". But it doesn't, because you have no sense of scale.
WOW! Now that people is what we call a
sass! Though, I have to admit you are right 100%.
The guy just made a toy...it is a toy..really. It may be a Commodore 65 duplicate without us knowing. Personally I will buy it
instead of gp2x or Nintendo DSi, or PSP. I consider it an entertainment system, a console and so forth so I will buy it for the games it will be developed for it. The graphics are great it have potential of having awesome sweet (good quality graphics) games like SNES, Genesis etc....so why not? I will buy it.
