Hi Howard,
today i tried running your Chequered Flag frontend but while it seemed easy to setup it just won't show any game or list icons. Just the background.
I only tried mame to keep it simple.
Installed dx4vb successfully
Copied your images in the image folder
Changed the mame.txt in "Emu Settings" to point it to the right folder
and hit up CF.
But as I said I just see the background image.
If i hit a certain button on my wheel, mame will load a game. So something is working.
edit: When I leave that game with the esc i get a black screen. I can start that game again though, so CF is still running.
Any idea what's wrong?
Oh and i'm running Windows 10 with latest updates.