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I am doing some research for a school project we are about to start. We have decided to make a 2D game. I''m not sure these questions have been answered here before, I couldn''t find anything.
1. What is the best way to blit images. Should I just blit them as usual in the paint method? I have done this in the past and I''m not quite satisfied with the speed. Is there a better way, or is there some good lib that could speed this up? SDL for java or something alike? Or does anyone have suggestions how to improve the performance?
2. Does anyone know of a good lib for playing sound/music? Wav/MP3/Ogg for Java?
In both cases, ease of use and a clean syntax is a big plus.
Any help would be much appreciated!