atari800 Google portable native client port?

[gozar]

As our school district is going to Chromebooks, it would be awesome to use the A8 as an introduction to programming. Unfortunately, compiling atari800 to Google's portable native client is way above my skills. Has anyone thought about doing this? I guess I could run the DOS version under DOSbox in Chrome, but that seems to be adding another layer for no benefit. :-)

[neglectoru]

How good is the MESS emulation of the Atari 800? JSMESS might be an option...