Restoring an old MySQL backup

I have a large file from 2007 containing a backup (as a SQL Script) of a MySQL Database. It's for an unknown version of MediaWiki.

-- phpMyAdmin SQL Dump
-- version 2.6.2-Debian-3sarge3
-- http://www.php开发者_Go百科myadmin.net
-- 
-- Host: localhost
-- Generation Time: Aug 29, 2007 at 12:42 PM
-- Server version: 4.0.24
-- PHP Version: 4.3.10-19

I've tried installing mysql-5.5.8-win32 and mysql-workbench-gpl-5.2.31a-win32 but am getting syntax errors. Is there an easy way of making the old script compatible, or am I better of using an older version of MySQL? Are the dev tools still available for the older versions?

I am looking for the quickest simplest option as I only want to restore it to get hold of some old raw data, not to set it up fully.

It would be worth to actually showing the error.

But anyway, SET sql_mode = MYSQL40 might help you if the syntax is really a problem. There might be issue with something what was not keyword before and now is, you would have to escape it in this case.