Thanks a lot for the welcome. I will certainly experiment a bit with C, just thought I would try pure assembler at first as it is a language I haven't used before. C# is good but it is hard to combine true object-oriented principles with performance applications such as graphics (and by the time I could find a good work around I noticed the amount of work I ended up doing is too much for one person).
I like the large number of links found here. I saw a website with a lot of good graphics links in C and assembler, but the links were all broken. I am trying to find stuff using VGA-pixel graphics for MS-DOS/Windows. Thank you again.