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In the 1960s and early 1970s, there existed a radical left-wing group in Uruguay, the Tupamaros,  that engaged in violence, bank robberies, kidnappings, interrogations of people they captured, propaganda efforts including taking over radio stations, had a cell-based structure with code names with cells from 2 to 6 people, had people from all different walks of life from uneducated peasants to educated professionals, had sleeper agents inside the military and police, and engaged in urban combat in the city of Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay which had most of its population.

The methods of the Tupamaros were virtually identical to those of the Liberal Crime Squad in the game Liberal Crime Squad, and for about a decade they successfully operated and gained more and more influence. The nation of Uruguay went from spending 1% of its annual budget on the military to 26% in order to defeat the Tupamaros, and the country went from being a fairly corrupt but still democratic country to having a military coup in 1973 as a result of what could be termed the "counterrevolutionary" response to the ultimately failed revolution the Tupamaros had spent years working towards.

Originally they had actually started out as a fairly nonviolent group but they did engage in robberies from the beginning in order to raise funds, and soon began doing kidnappings, although they would typically release the people they kidnapped after a few days. A few times they did kill people they had kidnapped, including an FBI agent who the U.S. government had sent to Uruguay to advise its government in how to fight the Tupamaros. At their peak they were very popular, but public opinion ended up turning against them after they became more violent.

The Tupamaros of Uruguay had so many parallels to the Liberal Crime Squad it is amazing. There is a Wikipedia article about them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupamaros. However there is a 1973 short book about them which is available as a PDF here: http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/uruguay/Tupamaros.pdf (hosted on a website run by Professor Antonio de la Cova, formerly of the University of Indiana, currently at the University of South Carolina). In that book, which you can read in your web browser as a PDF, which nowadays no longer requires a browser plugin, they sound almost exactly like the Liberal Crime Squad. They turned out rather like playing a game of Liberal Crime Squad where you do pretty well but the government ends up apprehending and imprisoning your leadership and there is nobody left able to lead.

As a footnote, one of the former Tupamaros, years later, after the military dictatorship had ended and there was political amnesty both for those involved in the dictatorship as well as anyone who had engaged in any political violence for the last few decades, José Mujica, was eventually elected President of Uruguay in late 2009, taking office in 2010, and leaving office in 2015 after another politician from the same political party as him (the Broad Front) won the 2014 Presidential elections. They have elections every 5 years for President and Presidents there serve 5-year terms. José Mujica was not as radical at this age and governed as a center-left leader, but successfully pursued progressive policies including legalizing marijuana, and he left the country in very good shape after his 5 years in office and handed it over to someone else in a peaceful transition of power. He had spent 13 years imprisoned, one of 9 Tupamaros leaders who spent 13 years in prison.

There was a 10th prominent leader of the Tupamaros who turned traitor against the other Tupamaros and sold them out to the Uruguayan government and helped bring about their downfall by being an informant from within, Héctor Amodio Pérez, widely denounced as a traitor, someone not respected or liked by anyone in Uruguay, since nobody likes traitors. He fled Uruguay to Spain in 1973 with the assistance of the Uruguayan government after helping them destroy the Tupamaros.

So, Liberal Crime Squad is not that far detached from reality, and what happens in the game really did happen once upon a time in the nation of Uruguay as a true story in an almost identical way. I thought people who enjoy the game might be interested in this. I would note that this connection between the Liberal Crime Squad and Tupamaros is entirely coincidental, and Liberal Crime Squad was not patterned after them at all. This is just a coincidence. Truth is stranger than fiction. The story of the real-world Liberal Crime Squad, the Tupamaros of Uruguay, who operated in a virtually identical fashion to the LCS in the game, is certainly an interesting one.

There is actually a movie about the Tupamaros called "State of Siege", a 1972 French film which received excellent reviews but which the U.S. government at the time harshly condemned. You could consider it "Liberal Crime Squad: The Movie". It is based on a true story, although many elements of the movie are fictionalized, for instance the names of the characters are all fictional and it was not actually filmed in Uruguay and the film is in French rather than the Spanish spoken in Uruguay. "State of Siege" is almost exactly 2 hours long and a 1972 French film, also going by the title "État de Siège", for anyone who wants to find this movie. The exact length of the film is 2 hours, 1 minute, and 34 seconds. To watch it legally, it is available from the Criterion Collection from their own website as well as on various other sites, it can be legally bought on DVD or BluRay or legally rented as a digital movie to watch on YouTube or iTunes or VUDU (and of course it has English subtitles). A friend of mine used to have a VHS tape of it but he lost it. I am NOT telling anyone how to get this movie illegally, of course, since that would go against the forum rules among other reasons.

Anyway, I just think the Tupamaros being so similar to the Liberal Crime Squad is very cool, although the fact that their actions helped lead to a backlash where the formerly peaceful and democratic nation of Uruguay became a military dictatorship for over a decade, from 1973 to 1985, that was awful, and they did commit many horrible crimes and I do not approve of that either, I just find the historical parallels of this group to the game to be amazing, even the detail of squads or cells having a maximum of 6 members, all using code names, is both true in the real Tupamaros as well as the game Liberal Crime Squad. So many details are identical, it is just the most amazing coincidence.

Hi I'm adding a new poll here on Ogg Vorbis vs. MIDI vs. MOD as the best format to use for music in Liberal Crime Squad. Unlike the last poll I did I tried to make this poll not sound biased in favor of any answer.

Right now the SVN versions of the game use MIDI music but this could easily be changed to Ogg Vorbis which has better sound quality but larger filesize. The main drawback of Ogg Vorbis is it would make the game take up more disk space and make the download size a lot bigger (Ogg Vorbis files, unlike MIDI files, are not compressible any further if you put them in ZIP files, so they stay just as big). But Ogg sounds better than MIDI. So it's a simple tradeoff between filesize and sound quality. Which do you think is more important? If you want good sound quality choose Ogg Vorbis, if you want small filesize choose MIDI.

There are also other formats besides these 2 that could be used but none of them would make any sense to use:
1) MP3 - it has worse sound quality than Ogg Vorbis at the same filesize and is also patent-encumbered causing legal issues
2) FLAC - it has better sound quality than Ogg Vorbis because it's lossless but the filesize is outrageously big, and with a high-bitrate Ogg Vorbis the difference between Ogg Vorbis and FLAC is not noticeable to most listeners (although the bitrate we would use for Ogg Vorbis might not necessarily be high, it could also be medium or low)
3) WAV - WAV sounds identical to FLAC as both are lossless but the files are many times bigger making them REALLY outrageously big for no reason
4) MOD - it is too hard to find MOD files of specific public domain music, and MOD is pretty much equivalent to MIDI in terms of filesize and sound quality but with the disadvantage of being much more obscure... MOD is basically a chiptunes format for the audio chip found on the Commodore Amiga so all of the audio would have a chiptunes sound to it and sound very artificial like a bunch of beeps and boops and some people like that but others don't, it certainly doesn't sound anything like an actual audio recording though, but the main obstacle here is if you are looking for a specific song in the MOD format you are unlikely to find it and will probably have to spend a lot of time and effort putting that file into the MOD format yourself (in this case it would be me having to do all this work probably and I have no interest in doing that)
5) Opus - Opus is the best quality lossy audio codec in existence developed as the state-of-the-art next-generation successor format to Ogg Vorbis (it has better sound quality at lower bitrates than any other lossy audio codec) but it is such a new format that it's hard to find a library that could play it back; there is an unofficial SDL2_mixer branch that supports Opus but it is untested and may have problems according to its own author's admission, and while it has .DLL files for libopus and libopusfile, it doesn't provide .DLL files for SDL2_mixer or .lib or .a files to link against in MS Visual C++ or Code::Blocks so we would need to compile and build it the music-opus branch of SDL2_mixer in both MS Visual C++ and in MinGW-GCC to produce the necessary files to link against and use as the .DLL for SDL2_mixer at runtime, and also using an unofficial branch of SDL2_mixer means it wouldn't receive any support from the main SDL project and it might not necessarily be maintained or work properly in the future; as for obtaining files in the Opus format we could simply convert files that are in a lossless format like FLAC or WAV into Opus, that is not too difficult, but overall I don't think it's a good idea to have a dependency on an unstable, unofficial branch that has known problems according to its own author... later on Opus might become an official format supported by the SDL and SDL_mixer projects someday, maybe in a year or two or three or when the next major version like SDL version 3 comes out but that probably won't be for quite awhile (so anyway I have no interest in putting in all the work necessary to use this format which isn't supported by the official SDL project and isn't supported by other cross-platform audio file playback libraries either, and think it would be a bad idea because it would make the project have a dependency on unstable untested code that doesn't have any support)

So those other 5 formats for various reasons don't make sense to use since either the filesize is too big (FLAC, WAV), the sound quality for the filesize is bad (WAV, MP3), there are legal problems (MP3), the sound quality isn't that good (MOD), or the feasibility of using the format is bad (MOD, Opus).

So the only 2 serious contenders are Ogg Vorbis and MIDI, both of which are quite common formats that it is quite easy to find public domain music in, and are also very well supported by SDL2_mixer. And between Ogg Vorbis and MIDI there is basically just a tradeoff between sound quality and filesize: Ogg Vorbis is better sound quality but bigger filesize, and MIDI is smaller filesize but worse sound quality.

So I encourage people to vote on this. I am actually somewhat undecided between the 2 formats myself. Although I originally put in MIDI music and was leaning in that direction, now I am not as sure and I could really go either way on MIDI vs. Ogg Vorbis as far as game music. The main reason I went with MIDI is actually I was worried that big filesize might get some of the players of the game upset because the game would be too large of a download and take up too much disk space, since it has always been quite a small game in terms of disk space in the past, and I wanted to avoid any sort of backlash or criticism over that. But then there was backlash and criticism over the low sound quality of MIDI and then I realized my predictions of how other people would react were incorrect. So I am fairly neutral on this but I will go ahead and cast my vote for Ogg Vorbis instead of MIDI this time because I think that maybe the sound quality should take precedence over disk space and because a lot of the MIDI files I found don't sound as good as some Ogg recordings I might be able to get for the same songs.

Anyway, either choice, Ogg Vorbis or MIDI, is equally valid from my point of view, but the other 5 choices that I listed all have significant drawbacks and I don't think any of them would be suitable choices for the game.

I tried compiling Liberal Crime Squad's latest SVN version in Code::Blocks under Windows (32-bit). Well it turns out the "game.cbp" file in the "workspaces" directory has a few problems. First of all, it's only set up to tell where to find header files and such for Debug builds, not for Release builds, so you can't compile or build Release builds, just Debug ones. But then, there is even a problem there, because the "news.cpp" file is in the "news" directory rather than the "daily" directory like the "game.cbp" file says. So I fixed both of those problems. Also it was only set up to do optimization level -O2 for GCC instead of -O3, and -O3 optimizes the code to run the fastest. So I fixed that too. Then I noticed that the compiled program I got from this, in Code::Blocks, had no icon. So I looked up how to give an icon to a program. Apparently I had to write a short file with the ".rc" extension to tell it to include the icon in "lcs_news_icon.ico". So I called the file "lcs_news_icon.rc" and put it in the same "workspaces" directory as both "lcs_news_icon.ico" and "game.cbp", and added it as a resource to the project/workspace/whatever. Anyway, this worked, and now the program compiles and builds perfectly in Code::Blocks under 32-bit Windows, and has the icon built-in, and is optimized to run as fast as possible. So, since I don't have the ability to modify code in the SourceForge project, I am going to list the contents of both files, my updated "game.cbp" and the "lcs_news_icon.rc" that goes in the same "workspaces" directory. This way you'll be able to compile and build this in Code::Blocks without any problems.

Here is my new updated "game.cbp" file in the "workspaces" directory:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<CodeBlocks_project_file>
<FileVersion major="1" minor="6" />
<Project>
<Option title="Liberal Crime Squad" />
<Option pch_mode="2" />
<Option compiler="gcc" />
<Build>
<Target title="Debug">
<Option output="Debug/crimesquad.exe" prefix_auto="0" extension_auto="0" />
<Option object_output="Debug/obj" />
<Option type="1" />
<Option compiler="gcc" />
<Compiler>
<Add option="-g" />
<Add directory="../src" />
<Add directory="../src/pdcurses" />
</Compiler>
<Linker>
<Add library="..\src\pdcurses\pdcurses.lib" />
</Linker>
</Target>
<Target title="Release">
<Option output="Release/crimesquad.exe" prefix_auto="0" extension_auto="0" />
<Option object_output="Release/obj" />
<Option type="1" />
<Option compiler="gcc" />
<Compiler>
<Add option="-fexpensive-optimizations" />
<Add option="-O3" />
<Add directory="../src" />
<Add directory="../src/pdcurses" />
</Compiler>
<Linker>
<Add option="-s" />
<Add library="..\src\pdcurses\pdcurses.lib" />
</Linker>
</Target>
</Build>
<Compiler>
<Add option="-Wall" />
</Compiler>
<Unit filename="../src/basemode/activate.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/basemode/activate_sleepers.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/basemode/baseactions.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/basemode/basemode.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/basemode/liberalagenda.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/basemode/reviewmode.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/cmarkup/Markup.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/cmarkup/Markup.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/combat/chase.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/combat/fight.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/combat/haulkidnap.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/commonactions.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/commondisplay.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/consolesupport.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/equipment.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/getnames.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/help.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/misc.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/common/translateid.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/compat.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/compat.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/configfile.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/configfile.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/creature/creature.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/creature/creature.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/creature/creaturenames.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/creature/creaturetypes.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/cursesgraphics.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/cursesgraphics.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/cursesmovie.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/cursesmovie.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/daily/activities.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/daily/daily.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/daily/date.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/daily/interrogation.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/daily/recruit.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/daily/shopsnstuff.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/daily/siege.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/externs.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/game.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/includes.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/armor.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/armor.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/armortype.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/armortype.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/clip.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/clip.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/cliptype.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/cliptype.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/item.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/item.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/itemtype.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/itemtype.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/loot.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/loot.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/loottype.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/loottype.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/money.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/money.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/weapon.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/weapon.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/weapontype.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/items/weapontype.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/lcsio.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/lcsio.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/locations/locations.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/locations/world.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/log/log.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/log/log.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/monthly/endgame.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/monthly/justice.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/monthly/lcsmonthly.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/monthly/monthly.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/monthly/sleeper_update.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/news/ads.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/news/headline.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/news/layout.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/news/majorevent.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/news/news.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/news/news.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/news/squadstory_text.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/pdcurses/curses.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/politics/alignment.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/politics/law.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/politics/law.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/politics/politics.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sandbox/creature_test.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sandbox/globals.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sandbox/injury_test.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sandbox/lcscommon.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sandbox/location_test.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sandbox/weapon.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/advance.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/mapspecials.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/miscactions.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/newencounter.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/shop.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/shop.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/sitedisplay.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/sitemap.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/sitemap.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/sitemode.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/stealth.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/sitemode/talk.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/title/highscore.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/title/initfile.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/title/newgame.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/title/saveload.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/title/titlescreen.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/vector.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/vehicle/vehicle.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/vehicle/vehicle.h" />
<Unit filename="../src/vehicle/vehicletype.cpp" />
<Unit filename="../src/vehicle/vehicletype.h" />
<Unit filename="lcs_news_icon.rc">
<Option compilerVar="WINDRES" />
</Unit>
<Extensions>
<code_completion />
<envvars />
<debugger />
<lib_finder disable_auto="1" />
<editor_config active="1" use_tabs="1" tab_indents="0" tab_width="3" indent="3" eol_mode="0" />
<DoxyBlocks>
<comment_style block="0" line="0" />
<doxyfile_project />
<doxyfile_build />
<doxyfile_warnings />
<doxyfile_output />
<doxyfile_dot />
<general />
</DoxyBlocks>
</Extensions>
</Project>
</CodeBlocks_project_file>

Here is the new file "lcs_news_icon.rc" in that same "workspaces" directory":
#ifndef _resource_rc
#define _resource_rc

MAINICON ICON "lcs_news_icon.ico"

#endif

Anyway, somebody should update the project with both of these files, so that people who download the source code can compile it in Code::Blocks without any problems. Please. Thank you.

Oh, and if anyone is wondering which installer for Code::Blocks to download, if you want to compile Liberal Crime Squad in Windows, pick the one that has "mingw" in the filename but NOT "user" in the filename. Currently that is "codeblocks-12.11mingw-setup.exe", which you can find here. Then with the 2 files I gave the code for above, you'll be able to compile the source code for the latest SVN builds of Liberal Crime Squad (currently build 693). It might even work to compile for Linux or Mac OS X, I am not sure, but it definitely works for compiling it on Windows.

Anyway, I hope you include these 2 files I'm contributing so that compiling in Code::Blocks works again.

UPDATE: Updated "game.cbp" file so Release builds have the filename "crimesquad.exe" instead of "Liberal Crime Squad.exe" just as already done with Debug builds, and so that Release build objects are stored in an "obj" subdirectory just as already done with Debug builds.

Hello everyone, this question is fairly simple. First off, there is a list of skills at http://lcs.wikidot.com/skills which might not be up to date for the latest version, 4.03.1. Anyway, I have a question that I would like everyone who knows anything about this to answer, well actually 2 questions technically.

Part 1) Which skills can't be learned from scratch? For instance, if your skill level for something is 0, which skills are you unable to learn by doing (for instance Computers and First Aid, and possibly Security, I think)? And which skills can't be learned by doing at all even if you have a point in them (for instance Religion and maybe also Business, I think)?

Part 2) Which skills can't be taught? Like if you are teaching other Liberals skills (which costs money), which are the ones you can't teach them (I think this would include Teaching, and it used to include Leadership, maybe a few others)?

Oh and there's also a part 3 I thought of:

Part 3) Which skills can be used by Conservatives to resist brainwashing (i.e. Business, Religion, Science, I think) and what are the ways those can be learned? Like can you learn them by talking to people about issues or by interrogating prisoners or stuff like that?

And of course I just thought of a part 4:

Part 4) Which skills were added or removed or renamed in recent versions (like Leadership was removed I think, and Psychology used to be called Interrogation I think)?

Anyway, anyone who knows the answers to any of these questions please post a response to this so I can figure out this whole thing with skills. I've noticed at least one change. It seems in recent versions the skill Security, used to pick locks, cannot be trained unless you already have 1 point in it already (similar to Computers and First Aid, I think). And if Leadership is gone, what is used to determine maximum follower count? Just Juice and Liberal Rank?

O.K. I guess that's more than one question. Well please post answers to that stuff here so I can figure this out. Then I'll see if I can get all the info onto the wiki at http://lcs.wikidot.com/skills so people can keep track of it. Thanks everyone. The reason I'm asking is if you are one of the people who helps write the game or knows the source code or plays it a lot you might know stuff about this I don't so I'd like to be able to sort of have a more complete guide to skills on the wiki at http://lcs.wikidot.com/skills than it has currently, but I don't have enough information yet to make a guide like that. I've played this game a few years on occasion and some of the changes in the newer versions I don't quite understand fully with regard to skills, especially the big surprise I found in the latest version when I couldn't just send an amateur out to try to pick locks in apartments to learn Security when they didn't have that skill yet. A comprehensive list of each of these kinds of skills that's harder to learn in some way (can't learn by doing, need at least one point to learn by doing, or can't be taught by someone else) would really help and maybe we could make one of those lists together or something. Anyway please help me figure this out so we can get it on the wiki and then not have any trouble understanding this anymore, and so other people can understand this stuff about how to learn each skill also. The descriptions on the wiki of how to learn each skill are not that good and don't cover these questions I am wondering about, and might even have some inaccuracies but I'm not really sure.

Try this: HX DOS Extender - a Win32 emulator for DOS, basically.

You can run Liberal Crime Squad in DOS!  (Probably... LCS is a Win32 console application and those work under HX DOS Extender in DOS.)  TRY IT!  If you dare...  I have not tried it yet myself, but I am pretty sure it will work.  If you don't have DOS installed, use a DOS emulator, or something.  The HX DOS Extender webpage tells which DOS emulators it works with.  HAVE FUN!  (You might also need a program called DOSLFN that allows Long File Names under DOS, I'm not sure.  Also you should try running under both MS-DOS 7.10 and FreeDOS 1.0, as well as any DOS emulators like DOSBox or DOSEMU, or PC emulators like QEMU, and try other versions of DOS too if you dare.  Lots of experiments you could do.  If you still have a floppy disk drive on your computer, you'll find it makes it easier to boot into DOS, and perhaps if you are daring, you could make a Liberal Crime Squad boot disk that loads DOS, loads HX DOS Extender, and starts Liberal Crime Squad right from AUTOEXEC.BAT.  HINT: to fit Liberal Crime Squad onto a floppy, use UPX to compress the main executable.)

Anyway, if you still have an old DOS computer laying around, it's probably just a simple matter of running HX DOS Extender and then running Liberal Crime Squad, although to be honest, you probably also need to run DOSLFN as well since it seems some of the files used by Liberal Crime Squad have long file names.  Still, it can be done.  Probably.  Someone with spare time on their hands who likes experimenting, please test my theories and post results.  I may get around to testing them myself if I find the time.

Look at this code from commonactions.cpp in version 3.15.1:

/* common - returns the creature's maximum level in the given skill */
int maxskill(int skill,creaturest& cr)
{
   switch(skill)
   {
   case SKILL_HANDTOHAND:
   case SKILL_SWORD:
   case SKILL_IMPROVISED:
      return (cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_STRENGTH)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_AGILITY))/2;
   case SKILL_CLUB:
      return cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_STRENGTH);
   case SKILL_KNIFE:
   case SKILL_PISTOL:
   case SKILL_RIFLE:
   case SKILL_SMG:
   case SKILL_SHOTGUN:
   case SKILL_DRIVING:
   case SKILL_SLEIGHTOFHAND:
   case SKILL_STEALTH:
      return cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_AGILITY);
   case SKILL_PERSUASION:
   case SKILL_DISGUISE:
   case SKILL_SEDUCTION:
      return cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_CHARISMA);
   case SKILL_ART:
   case SKILL_MUSIC:
   case SKILL_COOKING:
      return (2*cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_HEART)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_AGILITY))/3;
   case SKILL_WRITING:
      return (cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_INTELLIGENCE)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_HEART))/2;
   case SKILL_RELIGION:
      return (2*cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_WISDOM)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_HEART))/3;
   case SKILL_BUSINESS:
      return (cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_CHARISMA)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_WISDOM)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_INTELLIGENCE))/3;
   case SKILL_MEDICAL:
   case SKILL_SECURITY:
   case SKILL_GARMENTMAKING:
      return (cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_INTELLIGENCE)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_AGILITY))/2;
   case SKILL_INTERROGATION:
   case SKILL_TEACHING:
      return (cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_INTELLIGENCE)+cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_CHARISMA))/2;
   case SKILL_SCIENCE:
   case SKILL_LAW:
   case SKILL_COMPUTERS:
   case SKILL_STREETSENSE:
   case SKILL_TACTICS:
      return cr.attval(ATTRIBUTE_INTELLIGENCE);
   case SKILL_LEADERSHIP:
      if(cr.juice<10)return 0;
      if(cr.juice<50)return 1;
      if(cr.juice<100)return 2;
      if(cr.juice<200)return 3;
      if(cr.juice<500)return 4;
      return 5;
   default:
      return -1;
   }
}
There is a problem. SKILL_SURVIVAL is not mentioned at all. This means that the skill cap for the Survival skill is -1, so nobody can ever increase their Survival skill, ever, if I am understanding the code correctly. I looked at the latest SVN and while more skills have been added into this function, SKILL_SURVIVAL is still missing. Is it missing from there on purpose or is this an actual bug? Is it by design that the Survival skill cannot be learned? In earlier versions I think Survival might have been dependent on Intelligence, like Science, Law, Computers, Street Sense, and Tactics, but I am not exactly sure. Anyway the wiki now says what stats each skill is based on, and it is completely accurate since I based it on the source code from commonactions.cpp in version 3.15.1. The previous version said Survival was based on Intelligence but now it says the cap is -1 because that is the truth. I wonder whether there is some secret mechanism for increasing the Survival skill in some other file of the source code, though. I did a text search on all the files for SKILL_SURVIVAL and while it does come up a lot, I do not see anywhere where it looks like it is being modified, except during character creation. Is this a skill you are planning on deleting from the game or something? I am just rather confused about this.