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Elias was a preservationist of the digital age. His desk was a chaotic shrine to silicon, cluttered with original Xbox 360 controllers and hard drives filled with "dead" software. For months, he had been following the project—the ambitious, open-source effort to emulate the complex PowerPC architecture of the Xbox 360 on a modern PC. 60 frames per second