How to run OpenGL programs broken by ATI Catalyst 7.12+

[Stefan]

In December '07 ATI removed 22 extensions from OpenGL
Unsurprisingly this mashed a bunch of applications 

Therefore put a copy of atioglxx.dll 7.11 into folders of applications that stopped working.

List of affected applications:

ATI SDK March 2006 - Ray-tracing, Mandelbrot, HDR
http://ati.amd.com/developer/SDK/PreviousRadeonSDK.html
Globe 3D
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/gdm/g3d.htm
Water simulation, ambient_occlusion
http://www.naixela.com/alex/
The Valley 1.1
http://www.speedtree.com/html/downloads_exe.htm
Bunny Deformation
http://wwwcg.in.tum.de/Download/Defo
Skinning Mesh Animations demo (untick/tick vertex shader with current driver)
http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/projects/sma/demo.html
Real-Time Global Illumination on GPUs
"OpenGL version, uses vendor-specific extensions and hence will only run on ATI cards." ... Vineet Goel, ATI Research
http://jgt.akpeters.com/papers/NijasureEtAl05/
RadiosGLView
http://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/RadiosGL/RadiosGL.html
rtrad_v1_0
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/nickamy/realtimerad/realtimerad.html
Dual Shadowmap
http://pages.pomona.edu/%7Enrr02004/graphics.html
Black Penumbra - Im Halbschatten Episode 1 v1.0
http://www.penumbra-game.de/
Snow and Ice Landscape Rendering, The Garden
http://www.bonzaisoftware.com/sai.html
Suffocate SB01
http://www.ozone3d.net/demos_projects/suffocate_sb01.php

[JeGX]

Seems this is an habit from ATI: http://www.geeks3d.com/?p=267
In Cat 8.6, ATI has removed one extension. Since this extension has been introduced in Cat 8.5, this not really important but this is a bad habit from ATI