faster drawing ?

Hi,

i like to write small games but i've come to a problem, i always made little games that didn't need a lot of drawing on the screen like boardgames or games that' don't really need to draw much fast (tetris)
i used a timer and canvas.copyrect to do this

anyway i wanted to make a little breakout game but the problem is that copyrect method is to slow, the ball moves really slow and increasing dx,dy values makes the ball move sloppy & skippy.

Now i wonder is there a way to speed it up ? some api mebe ? i know delphix exists but don't want to use directx want to do it more or less in the way i used to do it!

thanks