I love finding a mysterious NOP in a released binary.

Someone patched this. Compilers don't usually just stick a NOP in the middle of a functional call.

Unless they're MIPS or similar, I guess, but there are very few MS-DOS games that run on MIPS processors

@foone I'm pretty sure the Borland compilers do sometimes insert NOPs for alignment under certain circumstances
@lethal_guitar Dang it. This is Borland C++, so maybe it's not such a tell after all