Can anybody suggest a short name to use for the BBC BASIC Console Mode editions, that won't always need explaining? I really don't think BBCCON fits the fill!

Well, yes, indeed that is a very interesting suggestion - and one I would never have thought of myself.Perhaps BBCTTY, after the old name for a console?
No, but nor can the features of BB4W or BBCSDL! They are abbreviations which can only be used when the intended audience already knows what they mean. One will typically use the full name once, in any given context, and then use the abbreviation thereafter for brevity.Flatlander wrote: ↑Sat 21 Oct 2023, 22:20 Can the strengths are this edition be highlighted in one word?
I still quite like BBCTTY but I wonder if there's potential for some confusion because TTY (standing for TeleType) might imply that capabilities like multi-coloured text, cursor addressing etc. are not supported when in practice they are (the console is assumed to be a VT-100 or ANSI-compatible colour terminal). TTY feels more like a 'dumb terminal' to me.Hated Moron wrote: ↑Sat 21 Oct 2023, 21:57 It's worth mentioning that Console can itself be misleading - at least one person thought it meant Games Console! TTY wouldn't risk that confusion.
There's a problem with that: it makes it sound as though the Console Mode editions are related to BBC BASIC for Windows when of course they are actually derived from (and use the same interpreter as) BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0. So any abbreviation really must start BBC... and not BB4...
BBCVT?Hated Moron wrote: ↑Sun 22 Oct 2023, 22:28I still quite like BBCTTY but I wonder if there's potential for some confusion because TTY (standing for TeleType) might imply that capabilities like multi-coloured text, cursor addressing etc. are not supported when in practice they are (the console is assumed to be a VT-100 or ANSI-compatible colour terminal). TTY feels more like a 'dumb terminal' to me.Hated Moron wrote: ↑Sat 21 Oct 2023, 21:57 It's worth mentioning that Console can itself be misleading - at least one person thought it meant Games Console! TTY wouldn't risk that confusion.