Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
GENERAL => Projects => Topic started by: Pixel_Outlaw on July 01, 2026
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I've always had an interest in the Lisp and Smalltalk projects at Xerox PARC in the 70s through the 90s.
Recently, there have been great efforts (https://interlisp.org/) to revive Medley Interlisp, a pure Lisp OS designed for Cold War Era AI and beyond.
This is a very old dialect of Lisp but it's still interesting to use. (I'm generally a Common Lisp guy).
Anyway, they've got a BITBLT function and that means demoscene stuff IS possible.
I may do more if there is interest, but twisting a DARPA funded AI OS that only runs Lisp is fertile ground for cool hacks.
This is a WIP, I may do more if there is interest.
You can download a personal copy of Medley for Linux, Mac, and Windows currently.
Paolo Amoroso has good build instructions (https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/how-to-build-medley-interlisp).
The repository is here (https://github.com/Interlisp/medley).
See the attached image, hopefully it animates...