Did this ever come close to working at all?

[Devon7]

A quick glance suggests this project was abandoned long before it ever worked.

[Devon7]

$ clisp -norc -repl ~/quicklisp/setup.lisp
[1]> (let ((*print-pretty* nil))
       (format t "~&~{;; ~S ~S~%~}"
               (list :software (list (software-type) (software-version))
                     :implementation (list (lisp-implementation-type) (lisp-implementation-version))
                     :features *features*)))
;; :SOFTWARE ("gcc -g -O2 -W -Wswitch -Wcomment -Wpointer-arith -Wreturn-type -Wmissing-declarations -Wimplicit -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-format-nonliteral -Wno-shift-negative-value -O -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -DUNIX_BINARY_DISTRIB -DNO_ASM -DENABLE_UNICODE -DDYNAMIC_FFI -DDYNAMIC_MODULES -DNO_GETTEXT  libgnu.a -lncurses -L/usr/local/lib -lffcall -liconv /usr/local/lib/libsigsegv.a -lc   
SAFETY=0 TYPECODES WIDE_HARD SPVW_BLOCKS SPVW_PURE SINGLEMAP_MEMORY
libsigsegv 2.14
libiconv 1.11
libffcall 2.4" "GNU C 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)")
;; :IMPLEMENTATION ("CLISP" "2.49.93+ (2018-02-18) (built on apples-macbook-air.local [192.168.1.2])")
;; :FEATURES (:QUICKLISP :ASDF-PACKAGE-SYSTEM :ASDF3.2 :ASDF3.1 :ASDF3 :ASDF2 :ASDF :OS-MACOSX :OS-UNIX :ASDF-UNICODE :REGEXP :WILDCARD :SYSCALLS :I18N :LOOP :COMPILER :CLOS :MOP :CLISP :ANSI-CL :COMMON-LISP :LISP=CL :INTERPRETER :LOGICAL-PATHNAMES :SOCKETS :GENERIC-STREAMS :SCREEN :FFI :UNICODE :BASE-CHAR=CHARACTER :WORD-SIZE=64 :UNIX :MACOS)
NIL
[2]> (load "clinit")
To load "misc-extensions":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    misc-extensions
; Loading "misc-extensions"


*** - FUNCTION: undefined function MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ
The following restarts are available:
USE-VALUE      :R1      Input a value to be used instead of (FDEFINITION 'MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ).
⋮
ABORT          :R10     Abort main loop
Break 1 [3]> cl:*package*
#<PACKAGE COMMON-LISP-USER>
Break 1 [3]> (quit)
$ grep -Hinr 'MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ' .
./zcinit.lisp:38:(setf (symbol-function 'multiple-value) #'multiple-value-setq)
$ ## This line is not present in the original.  CLISP signals an error
$ ##	because CL:MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ is a macro, not a function.