Bega's Battle with a non-original laserdisc player?

 Can Bega's Battle work on a laserdisc player other than the Sony LDP-1000A?

How to kill ants

So, I was using peanut butter as bait for mouse traps in my garage, but ants kept coming and stealing it.  I find it rather ironic that I had to get rid of a second pest (ants) in order to deal with the pest I originally was targeting (mice).

Here's an ant bait recipe I took from another website and modified:

• 1 teaspoon Peanut Butter
• 2 teaspoons Borax (yes, the stuff used as a household cleaner; this stuff is the ant poison)
• A small amount of vegetable oil

Mix the peanut butter and borax together as best as you can.  Add small amounts of vegetable oil until consistency is like the peanut butter was before you added the borax.  This is important to keep the bait from drying out (ants will ignore it if it dries out).  Place bait in the place you see ants (or where ants are known to come steal your mouse bait!!).  Do not interfere with the ants as they take the bait back to their queen.  This will take about 4 days.  Afterwards, the entire colony will be dead.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Making a MC44144 tester for Cobra Command / Dexter research

I've pondered about whether the "obsolete" MC44144 chip could be useful for making Bega's Battle (and Cobra Command dedicated) work with Dexter.  Although it isn't in production anymore, from what I can tell, it's still fairly obtainable.

Here's the PCB I've designed to help test it and see how well it works.