While at school, he developed an interest in computers and software, and learned computer programming as a pastime.

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By high school (in the mid-1980s) Quake owned four computers and made extra money teaching his classmates programming.

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Users could play many games and also learn the programming language of computers -- BASIC.

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" But don't think the story ends there, as Newborn added: "If you are interested in programming computers so that they compete in games, the two interesting ones are poker and go.

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