Anchors Plays on MS Surface as is!

My new Microsoft Surface arrived last night and I have been trying to learn how to use it. MetroTwit crashes every time I launch it, even though I have reinstalled it over half a dozen times.

After giving up on Twitter, I thought, what the heck I'll try my own web app.

The last thing that I expected was for it to work. But it did. The Surface uses Internet Explorer, so I thought I would have to write special code for it. And I didn't expect the touch screen to work so well with an app that I had written without the aid of a touch screen to tweak and test it on.

The game board loads a little small on the screen, but with the zoom gesture I was able to expand it to a very playable size. The normal game speed is pretty slow, but with a little difficulty I was able to use my mouse and increase the game speed with my home-brew slider control. The touch pad on the keyboard and the very small target on my screen made it tough. These are things I can correct. The slow speed of the Surface is a common complaint on the Twitterverse and I don't thing there is much I can do about that.

You can try the game out yourself. Click this link for the beta version. I don't expect it to work on the desktop version of IE, but it seems to work on most other web browsers. Please let me know if your browser will run it.