Reply 20 of 23, by krcroft
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Confirming what derSammler said.
I test DOSBox on a 400 MHz PowerMac, and use its USB 1.1 and onboard 100Mbit Ethernet for playing DOS games. I run games directly on the USB stick or directly across the network, because it's even less work for me than bothering with copying.
(USB 1.1 moves 1.5 MB/s, or equivalent to an 8x CDROM, and at lower latency than any storage media available in the mid and early 90s. Likewise 100Mbit/s Ethernet comes close to 12MB/s and also low-latency, assuming modern hardware on the serving-side).
On your 700 MHz PPC, DOSBox should run at roughly 7500 fixed cycles, which is roughly equivalent to a 386 33 MHz, which should satisfy most early 90s games and less demanding newer ones.
Above performance estimate is with jmarsh's excellent PPC dynrec patch. I'm not sure if it's already in SVN or not, but Dominus has an OS X build with it included here: Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)
