I got Borland c from a friend. Later on I got watcom c from crazybytes. And then visual C++. A lot of my learning (game dev) was of course the demo scene, and

I got Borland c from a friend. Later on I got watcom c from crazybytes. And then visual C++. A lot of my learning (game dev) was of course the demo scene, and x2ftp from Oulu in Finland. Another huge step was me going to the bookstore, secretively reading game programming books, and copying code on a piece of paper. Those books were unaffordable for me at the time, and the store guy told me to stop a few times.