4k car wash

heya

indeed, regular readers, no. this is not the usual car wash experience shared in some ultra high definition known as "4k", look you see. rather, what's on offer here is what some may call (or consider) "old school" 4k. which is the 4kb on offer on an Atari game console and cartridge. 

being honest is to say that i believe i have pretty much exhausted the ways in which a car wash can be captured, or pictured, in Commodore 64 mode. if you do not believe so, well, feel free to look at the dozen or so posts i have done in that much loved format and tell me what's missing. mixing it up a bit in the past has had, well, mixed results. not sure the ZX Spectrum, or if you like Spacktrum, one was good, at all. yet the Nintendo Gameboy one wasn't that bad. even if few read it. 

certainly i had some reservations (if not concerns) about capturing moments of a car wash in Atari format. the audacity, or daunting challenges of the task didn't really worry me too much; rather i was just worried that it would come out all a bit "blocky". as much as i love the Atari, what with oh so many fond memories of it, nothing of it struck me as a good medium for presenting a car wash. 

as you can see above, then, blocky yes, but interestingly a good deal clearer than i had anticipated, or imagined. you can, for instance, clearly make out that them big pillar things are clearly the big floppy brush things, heading in the general direction of the windscreen. precise direction, i suppose, rather than general. 

that said, the above may well be a false impression of how clear this is in Atari mode. from here on out i really, really do believe one would need some sort of narration, or text, to understand what part of the car wash is being shown. kind of. here, let me illustrate with an animated bit. 

maybe you can work that out without me saying. if not, that is the floppy brush thing going past the drivers side window, or right hand side window. the latter clarification is for our friends in America, as well as them silly people in France, what drive on the wrong side of the road owing to their cars being backwards. or in some sort of mirror state. basically, built not like how proper cars should be so that they could all drive well on the correct side of the road, as designated (or determined) as being right by us here in the UK, of course. 

so, moving on then, and an image which just might underline my blocky reservations about using the Atari format. or may not. 

no, i don't rightly know which aspect (or part) of the car wash it is that i captured there. it might be a shot of the side of my vehicle getting washed, or could be an off-angle look at the front. honestly i have no clue. rather abstract, i suppose. make of it what you will. 

let me consider other formats, then, when i next go to a car wash facility. but don't be too surprised if i retreat to the safety, and quality, of the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode. 

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