Well the results for the #lispgamejam are out. This time I did 30th out of 48; or 37.5%. That's an improvement over last year's 25/30 (17%), but it's not as much as I'd hoped.
I achieved good looks (12/48) and decent entertainment (23/48), but our creativity was quite low (33/48). I originally wanted to add vehicle-mounted weapons and power-ups. But they were cut due to running out of time. Looking at other top ranking games, I think I was on the right track but probably needed to add some kind of twist on the driving game to achieve a higher ranking.
Maybe I should partner up with someone for the next Jam.
I just updated my Medley from the Medley Interlisp Revival project (https://interlisp.org/) to get improved CLtL2 compatibility ... and boom, CL (loop)! Now to work through some CL code I've written to see if I can get it into the environment and running. #lisp#retrocomputing
Can anyone recommend some good programming blogs (in the realm of lisps, emacs, guix, technical deep dives) that offer RSS feeds? I've already got https://wingolog.org/ from @wingo which is pretty much the exact genre of blog I'm looking for. https://ianthehenry.com/posts/ from @ianthehenry is also a good one (although the RSS feed doesn't seem to work with GFeeds :).
I just think it would be cute to have a selection of RSS feeds to browse through :)
I built a GUI for Insphex, my hex dump tool for Medley. This Common Lisp program calls Interlisp's window and menu facilities to send the output to a window with a command toolbar.
#springlispgamejam2024
Can people say nouns or noun phrases that could be fun drawing prompts for our game?
I've got:
cat
dog
tree
house
star
horsechestnut tree
larch
New Zealand beech
This is part of a wry joke at the expense of LISPers and lambda calculators:
"... the heretic is chained in the dungeon where he is forced to learn Common Lisp on a Commodore 64 and interact with rapacious Lemmy-ings and Mastodonians."
@jackdaniel BBC Micro #Lisp back in 1982 (on a 6502), followed by Cambridge Lisp from about 1984, followed by Interlisp-D from 1986. I did use Harlequin's LispWorks about 1989, but not extensively. Can't remember whether Franz had REPL editing in those days, and there was an early PC Common Lisp called Golden something, but I can't remember whether it had REPL editing either.
It strikes me as really embarrassing that so many modern Common Lisp REPLs don't.