There are two kinds of retro builds: the ones where everything just clicks into place, and the ones where you spend hours soldering your way into a functional Amiga… only to discover you put a SIM socket in backwards. Ask me how I know. In this post, I’m taking you along my hands-on journey to build a fully functional Amiga 500 Plus using a dense Denise board in a mini-ITX case—including the keyboard/PS2 “modern comfort” upgrades, the FlashFloppy GOTEK stack, the joystick/drive mods, and the hilarious-but-educational detours caused by mistakes, tight tolerances, and a small army of sockets. Watch the video on YouTube Starting Point: “This Isn’t a Raspberry Pi”…