16 bit application support windows 8. The NTVDM.EXE has stopped working

When i try to run the 16 bit application 'autoap.exe' on windows 8, i am getting the following errors. The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction. CS:f4ff IP:1011 OP:ff ff ff 48 46 Choose close to terminate the application. NTVDM.EXE has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop woring correctly. Event Viewer Log: Event 1000, Application error: Faulting application name: ntvdm.exe, version: 6.2.9200.16384, time stamp: 0x5010a5c1 exception code: 0xc0000005 faulting application path: c:\windows\system32\ntvdm.exe faulting process id: 0x15f8