I took a brief look at cgol. Neat! Interestingly, I tried it in
clisp, sbcl, ecl, cmulisp, and abcl, and it only works in abcl!
clisp, sbcl, ecl, cmulisp, and abcl, and it only works in abcl!
For those wanting to play with CGOL too, it's available from the CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository.
Seems like ABCL is Common Lisp conformant enough to be able to run some of the older lisp code available: this source stems from 1993 and is unchanged since - judging by the timestamps in the download archive.