diff --git a/csdl/__init__.py b/csdl/__init__.py
index 8a48eb4..8e0f1b9 100644
--- a/csdl/__init__.py
+++ b/csdl/__init__.py
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 import ctypes
 _SDL = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('/usr/local/lib/libSDL-1.3.so.0.0.0')
 
-def get_power_info():
-    seconds = ctypes.c_int()
-    percent = ctypes.c_int()
-    _SDL.SDL_GetPowerInfo(ctypes.byref(seconds),
-                          ctypes.byref(percent))
-    return seconds.value, percent.value
-
 # Constants
 class INIT(object):
     TIMER       = 0x00000001
@@ -129,6 +122,55 @@ def get_revision():
     return _SDL.SDL_GetRevision()
 
 
+#### System Information
+
+_SDL.SDL_GetPlatform.restype = ctypes.c_char_p
+def get_platform():
+    return _SDL.SDL_GetPlatform()
+
+def get_cpu_cache_line_size():
+    return _SDL.SDL_GetCPUCacheLineSize()
+
+def get_cpu_count():
+    return _SDL.SDL_GetCPUCount()
+
+def has_3DNow():
+    return _SDL.SDL_Has3DNow() == 1
+
+def has_AltiVec():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasAltiVec() == 1
+
+def has_MMX():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasMMX() == 1
+
+def has_RDTSC():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasRDTSC() == 1
+
+def has_SSE():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasSSE() == 1
+
+def has_SSE2():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasSSE2() == 1
+
+def has_SSE3():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasSSE3() == 1
+
+def has_SSE41():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasSSE3() == 1
+
+def has_SSE42():
+    return _SDL.SDL_HasSSE42() == 1
+
+def get_power_info():
+    seconds = ctypes.c_int()
+    percent = ctypes.c_int()
+    state = _SDL.SDL_GetPowerInfo(ctypes.byref(seconds),
+                                  ctypes.byref(percent))
+    state = {0: 'UNKNOWN', 1: 'ON_BATTERY', 2: 'NO_BATTERY', 3: 'CHARGING',
+             4: 'CHARGED'}[state]
+    return state, seconds.value, percent.value
+
+
 #### video
 
 class DisplayMode(ctypes.Structure):
diff --git a/not_supported.txt b/not_supported.txt
index 8fa8ded..c183bce 100644
--- a/not_supported.txt
+++ b/not_supported.txt
@@ -29,3 +29,10 @@ CategoryRender
     SDL_RenderReadPixels -- returns void*
 
 SDL_pixels
+
+Made Irrelevant by Python
+    Byte Order
+    File I/O Abstraction
+    Shared Object Loading
+    Threads/Atomic Operations
+