Learning Resources and References

Phatcode: The motherload when it comes to programming resources, downloads, and sites. It's also our host. You'll find practically everything you'd ever need for your computer nostalgia and programming needs on that site.
Pete's Qbasic Site: A site with good tutorials and programs to help get you started in BASIC. It has basically every tutorial you could ever offer for Qbasic, which can be applied to the modern FreeBASIC.
Wikibooks: A nice project which has many programming tutorials but needs contributers to make them complete and well made. Only a few programming tutorials are well done.
Freshmeat: Programming projects, which may be of use to you.

Compilers

FreeBASIC: Home of the FreeBASIC compiler, an excellent compiler for BASIC with a good amount of libraries for games such as OpenGL, SDL, et cetera,
OpenWatcom: A good free C and C++ compiler and IDE set with a gVim-like text editor and tools for OS/2, Linux, Win32, DOS, and Win16 binaries.
GCC: Another good free C and C++ compiler stocked with most Linux distros and available to Windows through MinGW.